Beat Scene, Issue 63, Winter [December] 2010

Page 45 contains a review by Colin Cooper of the 25th Anniversary Edition (Penguin, NYC) of William S. Burroughs' Queer, edited and introduced by Oliver Harris. 

Pages 46–47 feature "The Sheer Strangeness of Burroughs' Writing," an interview with Oliver Harris by Beat Scene editor Kevin Ring. It includes a photo of Burroughs with Lewis Marker and another of Burroughs by Kate Simon [uncredited].

Minor additional mentions of Burroughs may be found on pages 25 (in "Going Back to NY School," an interview with Terence Diggory by Kevin Ring), 39 (in a memorial article on Peter Orlovsky by Kevin Ring), 53 ( in a review of Bill Morgan's The Typewriter Is Holy by Pauline Reeves), 54 (in "Bill Morgan's Holy Typewriter," an interview with Bill Morgan by Kevin Ring), 56–57 (in Colin Cooper's review of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg: The Letters edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford), and 60 (in a review by Kevin Ring of Harold Chapman's Beat Hotel Photo Exhibition in London).

Published in Binley Woods, England, by Beat Scene Press in late 2010.

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US).

Bibliographic Information: 

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Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Crazy Love" (review/essay)
• "Peter Orlovsky, July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010" (memorial)
• "Michael McClure in England" (essay)
• review of Harold Chapman's London "Beat Hotel Photo Exhibition"
• Paul Maher, Jr.: "Jack Kerouac's Watermelon Man" (essay)
• Sophia Nitrate: "On the Road Movie?" (essay)
• Chris Torrance: "From Micro to Macro: A View of Charles Olson" (essay)
• Eddie Woods and Jack Micheline: "Either Poetry or a Machine Gun: An Interview with Jack Micheline" (interview)
• Abel Debritto: "A Successful Tandem: Charles Bukowski and Marvin Malone" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Terence Diggory: "Going Back to NY School" (interview)
• Jaap Van der Bent: "On the Road to Go: John Clellon Holmes's First Novel The Transgressor" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Ann and Sam Charters: "Brother Souls" (interview)
• Robert Tudor:  
• review of Brother Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation by Ann Charters and Samuel Charters
• review of Little Charlie Goes to Gloucester by Henry Ferrini and Stefan Mallete
• review of Getting Inside Jack Kerouac's Head by Simon Morris
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Queer by William S. Burroughs, edited by Oliver Harris
• review of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg: The Letters edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford
• review of You're a Genius All the Time by Jack Kerouac
• Kevin Ring and Oliver Harris: "The Sheer Strangeness of Burroughs' Writing" (interview)
• Jim Burns: 
• "David Markson" (essay)
• review of Beat Surrender
• Kevin Ring and Peter Conners: "The White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg" (interview)
• Michael Kearns: 
• review of The Sea Is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
• review of Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity by Shannon L. Mariotti
• Pauline Reeves: review of The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan
• Kevin Ring and Bill Morgan: "Bill Morgan's Holy Typewriter" (interview)
• Eric Jacobs: combined review of Geometrische Halluzinatonen by Philip Lamantia and Raffaels Wolke by Michael McClure
• Dawn Swoop: review of 1959: The Year Everything Changed by Fred Kaplan
• Brian Dalton:
• "Chris Render: Compendium Was His Life" (memorial)
• review of Sextet by Henry Miller
• P. J. Humphreys: review of Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg exhibition

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• News & Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlett Letters