Beat Scene, Issue 115, Summer 2026

The inside front cover of this issue has a photograph of William S. Burroughs with a person identified as Hal Willner. This is actually a picture of Howard Brookner with Burroughs (by Paula Court, not credited).

William Burroughs (and Brion Gysin) are discussed in Rebecca Roach’s “Endless Talk: Beat Writers and the Interview Form,” pp. 25–36, particularly in the context of the Cut-Up method, tape recorder experiments, and self-interviewing, at pages 31–33. This includes images of Burroughs and Gysin.

On page 61, Brian Dalton reviews William Burroughs in Context, edited by Oliver Harris, Davis Schneiderman, and Alex Wermer-Colan.

There are additional, minor mentions of Burroughs in other articles.

Published in Binley Woods, England, by Beat Scene Press in the summer of 2026.

This copy was acquired directly from the publisher, Kevin Ring.

Bibliographic Information:

• Raven 20260700BSCE.0.115

Selected Contents:

• Paula Court: photograph of Howard Brookner and William S. Burroughs
• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Jack Kerouac and Charles Jarvis: A Taped Conversation, 1962" (essay)
• "A future Listing of a Promising Sounding Forthcoming Book Beat Girl: A Novel of Edie Parker by Michael Zadoorian Sparked a Few Memories of Meeting the Beat Girl Herself One Saturday Evening a Long Time Ago..." (essay/memoir)
• review/essay on the CD Philip Whalen 1989 On Bear's Head
• review of Comstock Lode, issue 1, edited by John and Mary Platt
• Kevin Ring and Roger Bygott: "Ginsberg and Manchester" (interview)
• Ian Brinton: "Nearly Brassed Off: Andrew Crozier and the Ferrty Press" (essay)
• Joel Lewis: review of Book of Blues by Jack Kerouac
• Monte Jones, Jack Kerouac, and Kevin Ring: "Letter to Jack Kerouac from Monte Jones" (essay, letter)
• Ted Radley: "John Clellon Holmes & Allen Ginsberg: Two Letters — 1949" (essay)
• Dave Moore: "Jack Kerouac: An Annotated Discography" (discography)
• Rebecca Roach: "Endless Talk: Beat Writers and the Interview Form" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves and Shig Murao: "Shig Murao's Notes on Howl" (essay/memoir)
• Tom Swift: "Robert Creeley at One Hundred" (essay)
• Bruce Jackson: photograph of Robert Creeley, Maine, 1984
• Eric Jacobs: "Morden Tower: Tom Pickard — Connie Pickard and the Beats" (essay)
• Anne Waldman, Gregory Stephenson: "Letters to Beat Scene" (letters)
• Michael Zadoorian: on Beat Girl: A Novel of Edie Kerouac
• Ann Charters: 
• "Ann Charters at the Grolier Club" (transcription, 6 May 2026)
• review of Ginsberg & Beat Fellows — A Personal Record, Photographs 1966-2022" by Gordon Ball
• "Charles Olson Twice" (combined review of Charles Olson Projective Verse 75th Anniversary Edition edited by George Quasha and Michael Boughn and Charles Olson: The Special View of History, Revised and Expanded Edition edited by Palph Maud and John Faulise)
• Jim Burns: "Wrey Gardiner and Poetry Quarterly" (essay)
• Brian Dalton: review of William Burroughs in Context, edited by Oliver Harris, David Schneiderman, and Alex Wermer-Colan

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Post: M. Ring
• Beat Scene in America: Marilyn Heneghan