Beat Scene, Issue 114, Winter 2026
Burroughs is pictured on the cover of this issue, which contains a significant amount of Burroughs-relevant material. A quote of Burroughs’ from the San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 1981, is on the contents page along with an image of Burroughs from his Mexico City arrest. At the bottom of page 27 is an excerpt from Francis Ford Coppola’s and Michael Herr’s On the Road – A Screenplay , entitled “Sal Paradise and Old Bull Lee at the Races” [Old Bull Lee is a Kerouac character modeled on Burroughs]. Kevin Ring shares a dream that he had of Burroughs in “William Burroughs: Exhibit Dream” on page 38. A review by Tom Albright of a Burroughs’ reading, originally published as “A Will Rogers of Sick Humor” in the San Francisco Chronicle Review of 31 May 1981, is on page 39. Pages 40-49 contain a long and excellent interview with Oliver Harris, Cathy Marshall, and Simon Johnson, entitled “Ordinary Stupid People: Joan Vollmer’s Life Before the Beats Began”. At page 51, Brian Dalton reviews Roosev...
