Beat Scene, Issue 41, n.d. [c. August 2002]

Minor Burroughs mentions throughout. 

Jim Burns contributes an essay on Big Table which mentions William S. Burroughs and The Naked Lunch at many points, appropriately, pp. 44-46. 

Kevin Ring and Strawberry Recording Company owner Jon Chambers discuss Music for the Dreamachine, Brion Gysin, and Burroughs, pp. 50-51. 

Dawn Swoop reviews Sylvere Lotringer's Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997 at page 58, as well as Burroughs' The Cat Inside.  

Jack Sargeant is briefly interviewed at page 65 about his Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, which includes a section on William S. Burroughs. 

Colin Cooper reviews The Final Academy Documents DVD, which includes William S. Burroughs, Antony Balch, Brion Gysin, and John Giorno, among others. 

A photograph of Burroughs and Gysin by Ian Sommerville is at page 29. 

Also includes a cool advertisement for Satori Books which headlines Burroughs, page 11.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press around mid-2002.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20020800BSCE.0.41

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Philip Whalen: Zen Heart, Dragon Wind" (essay, memorial)
• "Black Sparrow Press... The End: John Martin Calls it a Day" (essay)
• review of Gordon Ball's 66 Frames
• on the Naropa University Audio Archive and Access Project
• review of Jack Kerouac's Orpheus Emerged
• review of Chuck Rosenthal's Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel: His Last Novel
• review of Tom Clark's Edward Dorn: A World of Difference
• review of Frederick Feied's No Pie in the Sky
• review of Charles Bukowski's Blow 6
• combined review of Another Side of Love by Dave Rave and Mark McCarron and Driving in the Rain 3AM by various artists
• Charles Plymell: photographs
• Robert Winson and Philip Whalen: "Philip Whalen Revisited" (interview)
• Larry Keenan: photograph
• Kevin Killian: "John Wieners" (essay)
• Trevor Carolan: "The Wild Mind of Gary Snyder" (essay)
• John Suiter: 
• photographs
• extract from Poets on the Peaks
• Joanne Kyger: photograph
• Vojo Sindolic: "Dharma Insight" (essay)
• Maria Anita Stefanelli: "My Dear Doctor Williams..." (on William Carlos Williams)
• Zoe Artemis: "Goofing for Gregory: Tribute to Gregory Corso, Feb. 3, 2002" (essay)
• Ann Charters: photographs
• Pauline Reeves: 
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• "William Saroyan" (review of exhibition)
• review of Brion Gysin's Bruits du Beaubourg
• review of Robert Creeley: A Biography by Ekbert Faas and Maria Trombacco
• review of Jamie Russell's The Beat Generation
• Hubert Selby, Jr.: 
• section from an interview
• extract from Waiting Period
• Jack Hirschman: "Wallace Berman: Art is Love is God" (essay)
• Bob Snyder: 
• photographs
• "Beats in the Cellar" (photographs
• Wallace Berman: art
• Charles Brittin: photographs
• Tosh Berman: "On Wallace Berman" (essay)
• Jean François Duval: "Bukowski and the Beats: Angels and the Gargoyle" (extract from Bukowski and the Beats)
• Robert Crumb: comic
• Jim Burns: 
• "Big Table" (essay)
• "Was Kerouac a Communist?" (essay)
• Paolo Rossi: review of Oliver Trager's Dig Infinity! The Life and Art of Lord Buckley
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Beat Poets, edited by Carmela Ciuraru
• review of Paul Goodman's The Empire City: A Novel of New York
• review of William S. Burroughs' The Final Academy Documents DVD
• Kevin Ring and Jon Chambers: "Music for the Dreamachine" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Mary Kerr: "Swingin in the Shadows" (interview on the film)
• Jack Foley: review of Michael McClure's Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven
• Kevin Ring and Robert A. Wilson: interview about Robert A. Wilson's Seeing Shelley Plain: Memories of New York's Legendary Phoenix Bookshop
• Brian Hassett: review of Joyce Johnson's play Door Wide Open
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Darlene Fife's Portraits from Memory: New Orleans in the Sixties
• review of Mimi and Richard Farina's The Complete Vanguard Recordings
• review of Mineshaft magzine
• review of Les Belles Americaines pocket edition
• Dawn Swoop: 
• review of Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997, edited by Sylvere Lotringer
• review of William S. Burroughs' The Cat Inside
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• combined review of Anne Waldman's War Crime and Sonya Lea's Radical Presence: An Interview with Anne Waldman
• review of David Margolick's Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
• Kevin Ring and Joanne Kyger: interview about Joanne Kyger's As Ever: Selected Poems
• Kevin Ring and Jack Sargeant: interview about Jack Sargeant's Naked Lens: Beat Cinema

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• Research/News: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlett Letters