Beat Scene, Issue 113, Summer 2025

Minor Burroughs content in this issue. At page 51 is Brian Dalton’s review of Ordinary Stupid People: Joan Vollmer’s Life Before the Beats Began, which includes an image of William S. Burroughs with Joan Vollmer and their child Billy. There are a few additional minor mentions of Burroughs in the issue.

At the back cover is a reproduction of The Beat Journey with William S. Burroughs’ image.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2025.

Bibliographic Information:

• Raven 20250701BSCE.0.113

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "This Was the Beat Generation" (essay)
• review of Dick: A Memoir of Dick Gallup by Ron Padgett
• "Jim Irsay" (essay)
• Jonah Raskin: "Two Roads Diverged: Jack Kerouac and Robert Creeley" (essay)
• Sophia Nitrate:
• "Letter to Charles Olson" (essay)
• review of A Certain Kind of Wizard: Treasures from the Vaults of Ira Cohen
• Steve Edington and Cathy Cassady Sylvia: "'Telling My Mother's Story Is a Labor of Love': Cathy Cassady and the Legacy of Her Parents" (essay)
• Sam Charters: "Jack Kerouac's Jazz" (lecture)
• Helen K. Taylor: "Kerouac and the Viking People" (essay)
• Kevin Ring: "The Cowley & Kerouac Letters" (essay)
• John Wieners: "John and Joanne" (letter to Gary Snyder)
• Charles Bukowski: "Letters to Beat Scene" (letter to Kevin Ring)
• Peter Coyote: "Gary Snyder and the Real Work" (essay)
• Dawn Swoop:
• "On the Beat with Gregory Corso, London 1966: Michael Horovitz Investigates" (essay)
• review of A Catalog of Ordinary Madness: A Complete Bio-Bibliography of the Work of Charles Bukowski edited by Abel Debritto
• Pauline Reeves: "Gregory Corso: The First Ten" (essay)
• Eric Jacobs and Marc D. Schleifer: "The New American Poetry and the Kulchur Show" (essay)
• David Matthews: "Gregory Corso and the Belief in Poetry" (essay)
• Eric Jacobs:
• "A Beautiful Letter from Gregory Corso to Philip Whalen" (essay)
• review of Wild Intelligence: Poets, Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Post-War America by M. C. Kinniburgh
• Tom Swift:
• review of Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Evergreen Review Covers and Essays 1957-1973, edited by Pat Thomas
• review of The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties by Dennis McNally
• Brian Dalton:
• review of Ordinary Stupid People: Joan Vollmer's Life Before the Beats Began by Catherine Marshall and Simon Johnson
• review of Italian Journals by Gregory Corso
• review of Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde: Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman
• Ann Charters:
• "An Evening in Gloucester with Ed Sanders and Charles Olson" (essay)
• review of Black Surrealism: The Legend of Ted Joans by Steven Belletto
• "A Review of Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation Film" (review)
• Jim Burns: "Finding the Forgotten: Douglas Woolf and Michael Rumaker" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

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