Beat Scene, Issue 35, n.d. [c. Spring 1999]

Multiple Burroughs-related inclusions... 

At page 14 is an interview by Richard Ehrlich with William S. Burroughs republished from The San Francisco Phoenix, December 1974. 

Ken Brooks contributes "How I Met Old Bull Lee" at page 15. 

At page 33, Kevin Ring offers "Beat Fils Go to the Source" – mentioning William S. Burroughs in the context of the films BEAT and The Source. 

James Grauerholz (the Burroughs Estate owner, former Burroughs Manager) contributes "'BEAT' Is not a True Story" at pages 43-45, expressing his concerns with the film. 

"The Ultimate Dissenting Outsider", a review of Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs by John Tytell is at page 58.

A memorial article by Pauline Reeves for Paul Bowles, which mentions Burroughs, is at page 13.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in early 1999.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19990400BSCE.0.35

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Calamity Strikes David Amram's Home" (essay)
• "Beat Films Go to the Source" (review)
• "Richard Brautigan Returns" (essay)
• "Charles Plymell New Archive" (essay)
• review of The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle: The Art and Poetry of d.a.levy edited by Mike Golden
• review of Riprap by Gary Snyder
• review of The Brautigan Basement Tapes compiled by Ken Keiran
• review of Jim Morrison and the Doors: Eloquent Basilisk by Ken Brooks
• review of Poems for the Nation edited by Allen Ginsberg with Andy Clausen and Eliot Katz
• review of Pieces in Place by Jerry Martien
• review of Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee
• Michael Montfort: photographs
• Bill Gargan and Ken Keiran: "Beats & Co." (news)
• Jim Burns: 

• "LeRoi Jones and the Beat Years" (essay)
• "The American Influence: A Lost History" (essay)
• Christopher Felver: photographs
• Todd Bauer and Ann Charters: "Kerouac: Letters Are the Best Biography" (interview)
• Todd Bauer: 
• photographs
• "Eyes on the Beats: The Words and Work of Christopher Felver" (essay)
• review of The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
• review of Impolite Interviews by Paul Krassner
• Pauline Reeves: 
• "Paul Bowles 1910-1999" (memorial)
• review of Like It Was by James Koller
• review of The Small Press Guide 2000
• review of Marriage: A Sentence by Anne Waldman
• Pauline Reeves, Todd Bauer, and Marty Cummins: "The Good Beat Goes On" (interview)
• Richard Ehrlich and William S. Burroughs: "William Burroughs Pulls Out of England" (interview)
• Ken Brooks: "How I Met Old Bull Lee" (essay)
• Ann Charters: photographs
• Kevin Ring and Aaron Krumhansl: "Bibliographing Bukowski: Aaron Krumhansl talks about his new bibliography of Charles Bukowski" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Al Berlinski: "Charles Bukowski: Laughing with the Gods, Some Background" (interview)
• Fernanda Pivano and Charles Bukowski: "Charles Bukowski: Laughing with the Gods: Interviews with Fernanda Pivano" (interview)
• Errico Francheschini: "I'm Bukowski, and Then" (essay)
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Buk E I Beat by Jean François Duval
• review of Charles Bukowski: A Comprehensive Price Guide & Check List 1944-1999 by Al Fogel
• review of A Critical Gathering by John Fante
• review of Bily Childish's Selected Poems 1980-1988) and Billy Childish: Notebooks of a Naked Youth (review)
• review of Charles Bukowski: Locked In the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
• Mike Daily and Neeli Cherkovski: "Neeli Cherkovski: An Interview" (interview)
• Graham Melia: review of William Wantling's The Awakening
• Daniel Barth: "Go Moan for Man" (review)
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• "Elise Cowen: The Subterranean Beat Girl" (essay)
• review of A Paradise of Poets: New Poems & Translations by Jerome Rothenberg
• review of Liar! Liar! Jack Kerouac – Novelist by R. J. Ellis
• Kevin Ring and Robert Briggs: "Robert Briggs: Homage to the Beat Generation" (interview)
• James Grauerholz: "'Beat' Is not a True Story" (essay)
• Francesca Carr: photograph
• Laki Vazakas: "Laki Vazakas and BEAT" (essay)
• Dawn Swoop: 
• reviews of The Life and Hazardous Times of Charles Bukowski and Diggin' the New Breed: The Beat Generation & Postwar America
• review of Captain Beefheart: Tin Teardrop by Ken Brooks
• review of Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems edited by Lisa Russ Spaar
• Michael Leeds: review of What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski
• Mac Evans: 
• review of Kerouac's Nashua Connection by Stephen Edington
• review of Jack Kerouac On the Road, as read by David Carradine
• Colin Cooper: review of Eyewitness Hendrix by Johnny Black
• John Tytell: "The Ultimate Dissenting Outsider" (review of Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs)
• music reviews

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• American Correspondents: Mac Evans, Todd Bauer
• Research and News: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Nivek Gnir and the Rocket Scientists