Beat Scene, Issue 31, n.d. [c.June 1998]

Light on Burroughs this issue. Graham Caveney's The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs receives a full-page review from Kevin Ring at page 52.

A review of The Herbert Huncke Reader, which includes a preface by William S. Burroughs is on page 36, by Sophia Nitrate.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press around June, 1998.

This copy acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, MI.)

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19980600BSCE.0.31

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "West Coast Dreamer: The Lonely Death of Richard Brautigan" (essay)
  
• "James Laughlin's New Directions: An Independent Maverick Publisher" (essay) 
• review of Gargoyle magazine
• review of Graham Caveney's The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
• a review of The Falconer, a documentary about Peter Lorrimer by Iain Sinclair and Chris Petit
• review of The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Joel Meyerson
• review of Bill Morgan's The Beat Generation in New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City
• review of Hubert Selby Jr.'s The Willow Tree
• review of Charles Bukowski's The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
• review of William Saroyan's  The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
• review of The Beat Generation Galleries and Beyond, edited by John Natsoulas
• Pauline Reeves: 
• "Eldridge Cleaver, 1935-1998" (memorial)
• review of D. H. Lawrence's Quetzalcoatl
• review of Betraying Charles Bukowski by Alexandre Thiltges
• review of Saroyan: A Biography by Lawrence Lee and Barry Gifford
• review of Robert Creeley's Life & Death
• Pauline Reeves and Todd Bauer: "Beats & Co." (news)
• Keith Abbott: "Downstream from Trout Fishing in America" (book extract, on Richard Brautigan)
• David Kearns: 
• review of James Laughlin's Poems New and Selected
• review of Allen Ginsberg's LP of Howl and Other Poems
• review of Jan Kerouac's Baby Driver
• review of Charles Bukowski's The King of Poets LP
• Jay Jones: "The Poets, the Players and the Freedom Vigilantes: The Beat Origins of the Summer of Love" (essay)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Philip Lamantia: Becoming Visible" (essay)
• review of Chat Baker's As Though I Had Wings: The Lost Memoir 
• review of California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West, edited by Jacqueline Cogdell Djeddje and Eddie S. Meadows
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Millicent Dillon's You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles and also A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
• review of Duke Ellington's Paris Blues
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• review of The Herbert Huncke Reader (with a preface by WSB), edited by Benjamin Schafer
• review of Federico Garcia Lorca's In Search of Duende
• review of Alan Watts' Myth and Religion: A Thorn in the Flesh – The Philosophy of Asia and The Tao of Philosophy
• Allen Ginsberg and Vojo Sindolic: "Letters to Yugoslavia" (correspondence)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Snapshot Poetics" (poetry)
• Dawn Swoop: 
• review of Janine Pommy Vega's Tracking the Serpent: Journeys to Four Continents
• review of Wendell Berry's Another Turn of the Crank
• Barry Miles: "Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats, a Portrait" (essay)
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Louis Armstrong's and King Oliver's Creole Jazz
  
• review of Ken Brook's Tom Waits: Blue Valentine
• Jack Foley: extended review of Peter Coyote's Sleeping Where I Fall
• music reviews

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• American Correspondent: Todd Bauer
• Layout: Nivek Gnir [Kevin Ring] & the Rocket Scientists