Beat Scene, Issue 101, Summer 2021

John Kruth discusses William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin extensively in “A Photo of a Photo of the Sky — A Lost Interview with Allen Ginsberg,” pp. 41–45.

Kevin Ring reviews the Paradigm Discs release of William S. Burroughs’ Ali’s Smile LP on page 55.

Additional mentions of Burroughs may be found at pages 20–21 and 22 [in Brian Dalton’s “City Lights Journal: A Brief History”; 38, 39, and 40 [in John Fles’ “The End of the Affair, or Beyond the Beat Generation]; 60 [in a review of Ira Cohen’s Alcazar]; and the inside back cover.

Photographs of Burroughs are on pages 39, 45, and 55.

Published in Binley Woods, England, by Beat Scene Press in Summer 2021.

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20210700BSCE.0.101

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Totem and Corinth" (essay)
• "Joan Haverty's On the Road Intervention" (essay)
• "Helen Weaver: 'In the end I came to agree with Jack'" (essay)
• review of the Paradigm Discs release of William S. Burroughs' Ali's Smile LP.
• review of Sanctuary by Anne Waldman
• review of Alcazar by Ira Cohen
• review of Friendly and Flowing Savage: The Literary Legend of Neal Cassady by Gregory Stephenson
• Jack Foley: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'The Splendid Life of the World'" (essay)
• Massimo Sestini: photographs
• Brian Dalton: 
• "City Lights Journal: A Brief History" (essay)
• review of Buk 100: Notes for a Dirty Old Birthday edited by Matthias Kruger and Rebecca McLeish
• review of Bukowski — The Shooting by Abe Franjndlich
• Kevin Ring and Rick Peabody: "Rick Peabody and that different BEAT" (interview)
• Daniel Sklar: "Playing Pool with Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Alessandro Manca: "Jack Kerouac in Italy" (interview)
• John Fles: "The End of the Affair, or Beyond the Beat Generation" (essay, from The Village Voice, 15 December 1960)
• John Kruth and Allen Ginsberg: "A Photo of a Photo of the Sky — a Lost Interview with Allen Ginsberg" (interview)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Dave Cunliffe 1941–2021" (memorial)
• review of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review of Black Mountain Poems, An Anthology edited by Jonathan C. Creasy
• review of Is Baseball Holy? Jack Kerouac and The National Pastime by Gregory Stephenson
• Dawn Swoop: review of A Call for Chaos by William Levy
• Pauline Reeves: review of On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing edited by Ben Estes and Joel Weishaus
• Colin Cooper: review of Please Plant this Book Coast to Coast by Susan Kay Anderson
• Reggie Hands: review of Spring & Autumn Annals & Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Erin Ring, Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters
• Beat Scene in America: Richard Miller