Beat Scene, Issue 43, Summer 2003

James Birmingham lists the killing of Joan Vollmer as #5 in his list of "Defining Beat Moments", pp. 28-31.  

A report from Oliver Harris on a 50th-year celebration at Columbia University of the publishing of William S. Burroughs' Junky, entitled "Junky at Fifty", which includes a brief interview between Oliver Harris and Kevin Ring, is at pages 36-37.  

Jim Burns contributes "Kulchur", an essay on the history of the periodical, pp. 38-41 [to note, Burroughs contributes to Kulchur issues 1 and 3, is pictured on the cover of 4, and is mentioned in issues 7 and 15]. 

At page 58, Colin Cooper reviews Junky: 50th Anniversary Definitive Edition and Naked Lunch: The Restored Text [both edited by Oliver Harris].

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2003.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 20030700BSCE.0.43

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Walter Hoellerer" (memorial)
• review of Spirit: A Tribute to Jack Kerouac CD
• review of Marianne Moore's Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems 1907-1924
• review of Peter Whitehead's Tonite, Let's All Make Love in London
• review of Peter Whitehead: A Singular Vision
• review of Zombie Dawn by Tom Clark and Anne Waldman
• review of The Way of the Dreamcatcher by S. T. Georgiou
• review of An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso, edited by Bill Morgan
• review of Ken Brooks' The Jack Kerouac Digest
• Pauline Reeves:
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• Jack Shea and Kevin Ring: "Who Owns Jack Kerouac?" (interview)
• Jim Burns:
• "Freewheeling Frank" (memorial)
• "Jack Gelber" (memorial)
• "Allen Eager" (memorial) 
• "Ted Joans: A Recollection" (memorial)
• "Kulchur" (essay)
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• review of Randy Roark's Dissolve: Screenplays to the Films of Stan Brakhage
• review of Utopia Americana CD
• review of Carolyn Cassady's Let Go and Let God
• review of Beat Nights at the Electric Cafe LP
• review of Prophecies That Have Become True by Allen Ginsberg
• review of Henry Denander's  I Know What She Will Say
• review of Mark Terrill's Here to LEarn: Remembering Paul Bowles
• Jean-François Duval: "Bukowski on French Television in 1978: What Really Happened" (essay)
• Adrian Manning: "Charles Bukowski and the FBI" (essay)
• Jack Foley: "Goodbye, Ted Joans" (essay/memorial)
• Greg Keeler: "Stories about Richard Brautigan: Ode to Melancholy" (essay)
• Laki Vazakas: "Roger Richards and Claude Pélieu" (memorial)
• Jack Hirschman and Kevin Ring: "Jack Hirschman on the Front Line" (interview)
• James Birmingham: "Defining Beat Moments" (essays)
• Ian Green: "Standing on the Corner Waiting for Nobody: The Diggers of Haight-Ashbury" (essay)
• Chuck Gould: photograph
• Oliver Harris and Kevin Ring: "Junky at Fifty" (essay and interview)
• Fred McDarrah: photographs
• Jack Foley: 
• "Live at the Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California" (essay)
• "Kirby Doyle (1932-2003)" (memorial)
• Gordon Ball and Kevin Ring: "Gordon Ball's 66 Frames" (interview)
• Gordon Ball: photographs
• Peter Coyote: "Kirby Doyle" (memorial)
• Michael McClure: "Kirby Doyle and the Snows of Yesteryear" (memorial)
• Colin Cooper:
• review of The Lenny Bruce Originals, Volume 2
• review of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Live on the Net º San Francisco – Brighton – May 3 – 2002
• review of The Best of the Beat Generation CD set
• review of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian
• review of William S. Burroughs' Junky (50th Anniversary Definitive Edition), edited by Oliver Harris
• review of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (The Restored Text), edited by Oliver Harris
• review of Towers Down: Two Poems by Diane di Prima and Clive Matson
• review of From Absinthe to Abysyssinia [sic]: Selected Miscellaneous, Obscure and Previously Untranslated Works of Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud translated by Mark Spitzer
• Dawn Swoop: 
• review of By the Side of the Road by Anne Waldman and Ishtar Kramer
• review of Cover to Cover: Tribute to Philip Whalen
• review of The Cafe Review, vol 14, Winter 2003
• review of Franco Beltrametti's California Totem
• review of Daniel Kane's All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s
• Brian Dalton: review of The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth edited by Sam Hamill and Bradford Morrow
• Brian Hassett: "Selling Dharma" (on the Dharma Bums scroll auction, April 8, 2003)

Publishing Information: 

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