Beat Scene, Issue 59, Summer 2009

At pages 4-7 is "Collecting William S. Burroughs" by Jed Birmingham, an article published on RealityStudio on January 2009.

At pages 8-9 is "Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker: An Interview with Brian Cassidy", an interview by Jed Birmingham in which Brian Cassidy is encouraged to speculate on the future of Burroughs Collecting.

Kevin Ring contributes "The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened?" about James Grauerholz's thesis paper [later published by Moloko+], at page 9.

Colin Cooper contributes "The Black Book of the Beat Generation", a review of Naked Lunch @50: Anniversary Essays, edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen, at page 50. 

Dawn Swoop reviews Understanding the Beats by Edward Halsey Foster, which includes a lengthy section on Burroughs, at page 53.

Colin Cooper contributes a review of The Beats: A Graphic History, edited by Paul Buhle, which has a section about Burroughs, p. 61.

Burroughs is additionally mentioned in an interview by Johnny Strike with Herbert Huncke, pp. 38-42.

Finally, the cover of Burroughs' The Naked Lunch [Calder edition] is reproduced on the back cover.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2009.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20090700BSCE.0.59

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened?" (essay)
• "The Intrepid Days of Allen DeLoach" (interview)
• "Michael Montfort: Charles Bukowski, Horsemeat and All That" (essay/interview)
• review of Memories from a Sinking Ship by Barry Gifford
• "Iain Sinclair" (essay)
• Jed Birmingham: "Collecting William S. Burroughs" (essay)
• Jed Birmingham and Brian Cassidy: "Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and David Meltzer: "David Meltzer's Green Morning" (interview)
• Chuck Gould: photograph
• Brian Dalton:
• "Harold Norse" (memorial)
• review of The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
• Jeff Weddle: "Kay Johnson Skipped Beat" (essay)
• Harry Redl: photograph
• Eric Jacobs:
• review of Passage Through India by Gary Snyder
• review of America: A History in Verse – The 20th Century by Edward Sanders
• review of On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley
• Kevin Ring and Matt Theado: "Understanding Jack Kerouac" (interview)
• Gordon Ball: photograph
• Tom Pickard: "The Beats Hit North" (essay)
• Allen Ginsberg: excerpt from a letter of October 13, 1968
• Joanna Voit: photograph
• Chris Felver: photograph
• John James: photograph
• David James: photograph
• Johnny Strike and Herbert Huncke: "Herbert Huncke" (interview)
• Lawrence Lee: photograph
• Joan Jobe Smith: "The 1st Annual Bukowski Festival, March 28, 2009, w/the First Linda – Linda King" (essay/interview)
• Colin Cooper:
• "The Black Book of the Beat Generation" (review of Naked Lunch @50: Anniversary Essays, edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen)
• review of Hanging Around Kitkitdizze with Gary Snyder by Giuseppe Moretti
• review of The Beats: A Graphic History edited by Paul Buhle
• Kurt Hemmer: review of Jan Kerouac: A Life in Memory edited by Gerald Nicosia
• Dawn Swoop: review of Understanding the Beats by Edward Halsey Foster
• Jim Burns:
• review of The Fix: The Selected Poetry 1964-74, Volume 2, by William Wantling
• "Robert Reisner" (essay)
• "The Jazz Century" (essay)
• Anne Waldman and Laura Wright: "Beats at Naropa: Editors Anne Waldman and Laura Wright in Conversation" (interview)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin. Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• News and Research: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters