Beat Scene, Issue 90, Late Summer 2018

Includes a review by James Birmingham (excerpted from RealityStudio) of Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg, p.51. 

At page 53 Kevin Ring reviews William S. Burroughs' The Revised Boy Scout Manual: An Electronic Revolution.  

On the inside front cover an image of William S. Burroughs and Alene Lee sitting on a New York City fire escape together is reproduced with a text about Alene Lee. 

Some additional minor mentions of Burroughs are scattered in this issue.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2018.

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

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20180800BSCE.0.90

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Escape Trajectories" (review of Escape Trajectories Gareth Jackson and William Weiss)
• "Tom Clark: Beyond the Fault Line Now" (essay)
• "The Breakup of The Dharma Bums" (essay)
• review of A Parallel Planet of People and Places by Ruth Weiss
• review of The Revised Boy Scout Manual: An Electronic Revolution by William S. Burroughs
• review of Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts by Iain Sinclair
• Third Mind Books and Thomas Rain Crowe: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Thomas Rain Crowe" (interview)
• Chris Felver: photograph
• Joe Specht: "Peter Coyote: A Chance Encounter" (essay)
• Florence Dugowson: photograph
• Robert Creeley: "Robert Creeley, San Francisco, 1956" (transcript)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Anselm Hollo: A Personal Recollection" (essay)
• "George Woodcock: Among the Anarchists" (essay)
• "Women Writers of the Beat Era" (essay)
• review of The Noir American & Other Poems by Tony Roberts
• Colin Cooper: "Further Notes on Anselm Hollo" (essay)
• Jane Dalrymple: photograph
• Michael Kearns: "John Calder: One of a Kind" (essay)
• Peter Anastas: "An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson" (essay)
• Simon Warner and Jim Sampas: "The Jack Kerouac Estate: New Beginnings" (interview)
• Pauline Reeves: 
• "Bukowski Rocks... North Beach... 1972" (essay)
• review of Beat Poets by Vista Books
• Ryan Matthews: "And Then There Were Nun" (essay)
• James Birmingham: review of Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
• Jeff Johnson: review of The Works of Iain Sinclair: A Descriptive Bibliography and Biographical Chronology 1943-1987
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review of The Oval Window by J. H. Prynne
• combined review of Gary Snyder's Danger on Peaks, Riprap, and Cold Mountain Poems
• Dawn Swoop: review of I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Asa Beneviste and Trigram Press by Jeremy Reed
• Brian Dalton: review of Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master – Texts & Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge with Peter Christopherson
• Jim Pennington: review of The Beat Scene: Photographs by Burt Glinn

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Erin Ring, Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters
• Beat Scene in the USA: Richard Miller