Beatdom, Issue 8, January 2011

Light on Burroughs. Contains a poem by Mark A. Murphy, “William S. Burroughs Dead”, at pages 44-45.

An illustration of Burroughs with a naked Ginsberg by Haydn Lock ("HRLOCK") is on page 58.

Minor mentions of Burroughs are in “Many Loves” by Dr. Madhu Mehrota and Geetanjali Joshi Mishra, at page 28, and in Wayne Mullins’ story “Swinging with the Beats”, pp. 57-58.

Published in Scotland by Beatdom / David Wills in January 2011.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20110100BEAT.0.8

Selected Contents:

• Isaac Bonan: cover illustration
• David S. Wills:
• "Letter from the Editor" (editorial)
• "The Sex Life of Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• Spencer Kansa and Carolyn Cassady: "Carolyn Cassady: Neal, Me and Jack Makes Three" (interview)
• Karen Baddeley: "The Lady Is a Humble Thing: Discovering Elise Nada Cowen" (essay)
• Rachel Greenhaus: "Sick or Magical?: Some Differences between Male and Female Beat Writing" (essay)
• Gary Snyder: "Praise for Sick Women" (poetry)
• Diane di Prima: "The Practice of Magical Evocation" (poetry)
• Michael Hendrick:
• "Romance & the Rolling Stone" (essay)
• "Kiss Mr. Chicken" (prose)
• Dr. Madhu Mehrota and Geetanjali Joshi Mishra: "Many Loves" (essay)
• Haydn Lock: illustrations
• Ardin Lalui: "Loneliness and Waitresses: Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski" (essay)
• Waylon Bacon: illustrations
• Chuck Taylor: "Whores Who Were My Friends" (prose)
• Mark A. Murphy:
• "William S. Burroughs Dead" (poetry)
• "In a Rage with Allen Ginsberg" (poetry)
• Scott Alexander Jones: "Deathsong Lifted from a Book on John Lennon" (poetry)
• Doug Draime: "What She Said on the Phone when She Was Too Drunk to Stop Crying" (poetry)
• Alex Stein: "It Was a Night..." (drawing/poetry)
• Brin Friesen: "Gnossienne" (prose)
• Lee McRae: "Poetess and the Patriarch" (essay)
• Kathryn Bergin: photograph
• Wayne Mullins: "Swinging with the Beats" (prose)
• Isaac Bonin: illustration
• James Lough: "Gregory Corso: Poet of the Streets" (essay)
• unstated: "Marriage to a Stranger" (review of Dear Tanya: The Letter Poems & Drawings of Josan by Alex Stein)
• Andres Salaaf: illustrations
• Shimsher Rice: "76 Seconds in Newcastle" (prose)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: David Wills
• Assistant Editor: Wayne Mullins, Michael Hendrick
• Publisher: City of Recovery Press
• Page Design: Wayne Mullins