Beatdom, Issue 21 ("The Change Issue"), 2021

This includes Westley Heine’s “Make the Change: The Art & Prophecy of William S. Burroughs”, pp. 37-57, which includes multiple extended quotes from Burroughs. This essay is preceded by a digitally-modified Gerard Malanga photograph of William S. Burroughs aiming a rifle at the World Trade Towers.

Also included is Leon Horton’s “Turning the Tables: An Interview with Victor Bockris”, pp. 59-93. An extended version of this interview was published by Beatdom in 2025 within Victor Bockris' The Burroughs-Warhol Connection.

An advertisement for Burroughs and Scotland by Chris Kelso is on page 58 and on the back cover.

The cover of the 2020 Persian-language edition of Burroughs' Naked Lunch, translated by Farid Ghadami, is shown on page 142.

Josh Bergamin's "An Excess of Meaning: Interpretation and the Cut-Up", discussing the Cut-Up Method and Gysin and Burroughs, is on pages 184-190.

Multiple additional minor mentions of Burroughs throughout.

Published in Scotland by David S. Wills' Beatdom Books in 2021.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20210000BEAT.0.21

Contents:

• David S. Wills: editorial
• Ryan Matthews: "The Many Lives of LeRoi Jones: Race and the Beat Generation" (essay)
• David S. Wills: "The Change: Allen Ginsberg, Reborn" (essay)
• Westley Heine: "Make the Change: The Art & Prophecy of William S. Burroughs" (essay)
• Leon Horton and Victor Bockris: "Turning the Tables: An Interview with Victor Bockris" (interview)
• Victor Bockris: photographs
• Heike Mlakar: review of Some American Tales by Brenda Frazer
• Vic Larson: "Violets Are Blue" (essay)
• Matthew Levi Stevens: "All Change: The Lives & Arts of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge" (essay)
• R. B. Morris and Gerald Nicosia: "Gerald Nicosia Interviewed by R.B. Morris" (interview)
• Randy Rhody: "Allen Ginsberg in Nebraska, 1966" (essay)
• David S. Wills and Farid Ghadami: "Bringing the Beats to Iran: An Interview with Farid Ghadami" (interview)
• Paul W. Jacob: "Box Car Communion: A Narrative Theological Reflection on the Opening Chapter of the Dharma Bums" (essay)
• Leon Horton: "Only Tough Guys Shit Themselves in Public" (essay)
• Graham Rae and Juan Thompson: "Like Father, Like Son: A Juan Thompson Interview" (interview)
• Matt Schultz: "Omnia Extares with a Haiku by Jack Kerouac" (poetry)
• Josh Bergamin: "An Excess of Meaning: Interpretation and the Cut-Up" (essay)
• Ryan Matthews: review of Beat Scrapbook by Gerald Nicosia
• Gerald Nicosia: photograph
• Weldon Kees: "The Times, The Times" (poetry)
• John Pratt: "A Memory of Gregory Corso" (essay)
• Marc Olmsted: "Unrecorded Corso Secondhand Flashes" (memoir)
• David S. Wills: "The Words that Ended my Life" (essay)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: David S. Wills