The Kerouac Rag, Issue 3 ("Special Neal & Carolyn Issue"), Spring 2005

At pages 73-76 is Jim Burns’ review of Miles’ The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963.

James Grauerholz contributes “Military Burroughs”, a letter to Bill Gargan, dated March 25, 2003, which discusses Burroughs’ short time in the military, pp. 104-106.

Published in Devon, England by Alan Griffey in the Spring of 2005.

This copy, which was acquired from The Book Shelf (Salem, Oregon, US), also included two photocopied pages of additional Kerouac news, websites, and upcoming publications.

Thanks to Aloes Books publisher Jim Pennington for bringing my attention to this item.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20050400BEAT.0.3

Contents:

• Alan Griffey:
• editorial
• portrait of Neal Cassady
• portrait of Carolyn Cassady
• "Pub Conversation" (prose)
• "You Too Can Write Songs Like the Beatles" (essay)
• review of I Vitelloni by Fredrico Fellini
• "Violence" (essay)
• "The Day I Stopped and Gave Jack Kerouac a Lift" (essay)
• John Ezard: "They call him the wanderer..." (essay)
• Rob Johnson and Carolyn Cassady: "An Interview with Carolyn Cassady" (interview)
• Carolyn Cassady: cover photograph
• John J. Dorfner:
• photographs
• "Kerouac and Cassady: On the Road in North Carolina, Christmas 1948" (essay)
• "Two Guys in Kerouac's Memorial Park Lowell" (profile)
• Dave Moore:
• photograph
• review of Good Blonde and Others by Jack Kerouac
• Chris Miller:
• photographs
• "Following Kerouac's Trail across Iowa and Nebraska" (essay)
• Eve Arnold: photograph
• Catherine Opie: back cover image
• Alan Griffey and Dave Moore: "Neal's Letters – An Interview with Dave Moore" (interview)
• Don Cockman: "On the Road for Real" (journal)
• Colleen Smith: "Babies needn't cramp your style..." (essay)
• Greenough: drawing
• Perry: "Rimbaud Revealed" (essay)
• Jeanne Conn:
• "Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)" (essay)
• review of The Eternities of Shiva by Kaviraj George Dowden
• Jim Burns:
• review of San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets edited by David Meltzer
• review of Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years by Diane di Prima
• review of The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 by Miles
• Gerald Nicosia: "The Fate of Memory Babe Archive Now Hangs in the Balance" (essay)
• Jeff Cloves: "On the Road with the Bebop Generation" (essay)
• music reviews
• Dominik Rypalski: "A Simple Road, Is It?" (essay/review)
• Matthew Allen Larson:
• drawing
• "Neon James Dean" (essay)
• Brian Hassett: "The Author, The Auctioneer, and the Altruist" (essay)
• James Morton: "Two Grams of Oil in Sixteen Fags" (prose)
• Chuck Squatriglia: "Ted Joans – Beat Generation Poet and Artist" (essay)
• Bobby: "Every Junkie I Ever Knew" (prose)
• Dave Cunliffe: "Living the Beat Life in 50's Northern UK Bohemia" (essay)
• Karl Alessi: "Jack in a Bar" (prose)
• Various: "War & Peace" (letters)
• Bill Gargan "The Beats in World War II" (essay/introduction)
• James Grauerholz: "Military Burroughs" (letter)
• K. M. Dersley: "Boy, Did They Have Mail" (review of Jack Kerouac – Selected Letters 1957-1969 by Anne Charters)
• A–Mary Murphy: review of Kerouac, the Word, and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester by Ben Giamo
• book reviews
• film reviews
• news

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Alan Griffey