Beat Scene, Issue 71, Autumn 2013

Includes "William S. Burroughs' Wild Ride with Scientology" by Lee Konstantinou, pp. 22-24.

At pages 25-27 is "The Proper Credentials: Herbert Huncke" an interview with Huncke by Oliver Harris, primarily about William S. Burroughs.

A review of William S. Burroughs /Cut by Brian Dalton entitled "Digging the Past of William Burroughs" is at page 51.

A review by Eric Jacobs of David S. Wills' Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult' is at page 55. A quote from Burroughs accompanies the essay.

The inside back cover reproduces the cover of the Grove Press Naked Lunch prospectus from 1962.

There are a number of additional minor mentions of Burroughs in this issue, including in Carl Landauer's "Before the Beat Hotel: The Merlin Magazine Crowd in Fifties Paris" and in David Holzer's "Does the gong still resonate? At the 2013 Colloque à Tanger".

This copy of this issue includes a subscriber-only DVD interview with Iain Sinclair by Sam Johnson entitled Journeys to the End of the Light.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20131000BSCE.0.71

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• review of Iain Sinclair's American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light
• "Carolyn Cassady: Now, Off the Road" (memorial)
• on Tim Hernandez's Mañana Means Heaven
• review of One Night at the Aristo by Nic Saunders
• partial [as in: cut-off] review of Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hoffman and his Discovery of LSD, by Dieter Hagenbach and Lucius Werthmuller
• Carl Landauer: "Before the Beat Hotel: The Merlin Magazine Crowd in Fifties Paris" (essay)
• Jim Burns: "Janet Richards and Her Common Soldiers" (essay)
• Allen Ginsberg and unknown interviewer: "National Security Archives Interview with Allen Ginsberg, August 11th, 1996" (interview)
• Lee Konstantinou: "William S. Burroughs' Wild Ride with Scientology" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs: quote on Scientology
• Oliver Harris and Herbert Huncke: "The Proper Credentials: Herbert Huncke, an Interview" (interview)
• Gregory Stephenson: "Kerouac at the Hotel Stevens" (essay)
• David Holzer: "Does the gong still resonate? At the 2013 Colloque à Tanger" (essay)
• Ann Charters: "Kerouac's Women" (essay)
• Tom Hibbard: "Kerouac's Poetry: Mexican Black Hole Purgatorio" (essay)
• Sophia Nitrate:
• review of Poems Retrieved by Frank O'Hara
• review of David Stephen Calonne's Charles Bukowski
• Brian Dalton:
• review of William S. Burroughs/Cut, the book that accompanied the exhibition The Name Is Burroughs – Expanded Media
• review of Hilary Holloday's American Hipster: A Life of Herbert Huncke – The Times Square Hustler Who Inspired the Beat Movement
• Pauline Reeves: review of Henry D. Thoreau: Essays, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer
• Kevin Ring and Thurston Moore: "Comes Through In the Call Hold: Clark Coolidge, Anne Waldman and Thurston Moore collaborate" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Ammiel Alcalay: "A Little History" (interview)
• Eric Jacobs:
• review of David S. Wills' Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
• review of Donna Krolik Hollenberg's A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
• Kevin Ring and Heath Common: "Heath Common and the Thin Man and their Beat Manifesto" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Garrett Caples: "The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia" (interview/review)
• Kevin Ring and Daniel Katz: "The Poetry of Jack Spicer" (interview)
• Michael Kearns: review of Among Friends: Engendering the Social Life of Poetry, edited by Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin
• Sam Johnson, Kevin Ring, and Iain Sinclair: "Iain Sinclair: Journeys to the End of the Light" (DVD, interview)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• Research and News: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlet Letters