Beat Scene, Issue 109, Winter 2024

Burroughs pictured on the cover: "The Burroughs Affair Naked Lunch 1963".

An image of Burroughs with Brion Gysin is at page 3.

Alex Neish's review of Naked Lunch – as published in Outsidee, issue 3, Spring 1963 – is at page 23.

John Pearson's "The Burroughs Affair" – published in the Sunday Times Colour Section on February 3, 1963 – is at pages 24-25 along with a photo by Bob Willoughby.

An interview between Kevin Ring and Jan Herman which discusses Burroughs and Gysin is at pages 52-53.

Brian Dalton's "The Black Mountain Review: More Adventures in Writing", pp. 55-57, describes Burroughs' inclusion in issue seven.

At page 58, Pauline Reeves contributes "William S. Burroughs: The Frisco Kid He Never Returns with Shadow Routines by Iain Sinclair", a review of the book published by Tangerine Press.

This copy received directly from Kevin Ring at Beat Scene Press

Bibliographic Information:

• Raven 20240100BSCE.0.109

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "McBride Brothers & Broadley" (essay)
• "Bruce Cook's Beat Generation" (essay)
• Diane di Prima: "Letters to Beat Scene" (letter)
• Ann Charters: "Jack Kerouac and his Scattered Poems" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Jane Cryan: "Gotta See Jane" (essay/interview)
• Don Heneghan and James McKenzie: "City Lights in North Dakota Revisited" (interview)
• Jim Burns: "Herbert Gold (1924-2023)" (memorial)
• Colin Cooper: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Laugharne" (essay)
• Alex Neish: "Naked Lunch by William Burroughs" (review)
• John Pearson: "The Burroughs Affair" (essay)
• Pat Fenton: "Pat Fenton's Guide to Jack Kerouac's Life in Queens, NY." (essay)
• Gregory Corso: "Moschops! You Are a Loser!" (prose)
• Gregory Stephenson: "Gregory Corso and the Making of Junge Amerikanische Lyrik" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Paul Maher Jr.: "A New Jack Kerouac Biography" (interview)
• Paul Maher Jr.: "Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time" (excerpt)
• Jim Burns: "Pulp Fiction" (essay)
• various: "Jack Kerouac: What They Said, England 1960s" (letters/reviews)
• Kevin Ring and Jan Herman: "Jan Herman: Cut Up or Shut Up" (interview)
• Nelson Algren: "Kerouac Deftly Etches the 'Go' Generation" (review)
• Brian Dalton: "The Black Mountain Review: More Adventures in Writing" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves: "William S. Burroughs: The Frisco Kid He Never Returns with Shadow Routines by Iain Sinclair" (revie)
• Eric Jacobs:
• "Pariah Genius by Iain Sinclair" (review)
• "Brion Gysin Junk" (review)
• Nicholas G. Brownrigg: "Cuba Libre" (letter)
• Don Heneghan: "My San Francisco by Gordon Ball" (review)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Pauline Reeves and Erin Ring
• Post: M. Ring
• Layout: Scarlett Letters
• Beat Scene in the USA: Richard Miller