Beat Scene, Issue 110, Spring 2024

Includes "Dressed for Tea", an interview with William S. Burroughs by W.J. Weatherby (originally in The Guardian, 1963), p. 23. 

At page 59 is a review by Michael Kearns of Burroughs Unbound: William Burroughs and the Performance of Writing, edited by S.E. Gontarski. 

At page 61 is a smart review by Jim Pennington of The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened? by James Grauerholz. 

Jan Herman contributes "My Adventures in Fugitive Literature" at pages 6-14; this contains a number of mentions of Burroughs, particularly in the context of The San Francisco Earthquake and Nova Press. 

Burroughs is also mentioned in Kit Knight's "Huncke", pp. 39-43.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2024.

Bibliographic Information: 

• 20240400BSCE.0.110

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Paul Bowles: In a Silent Way" (essay)
• "Neeli Cherkovski (1945-2024)" (memorial)
• Brian Dalton: "Anton Rosenberg: Angel Headed Hipster" (essay)
• Jan Herman: "My Adventures in Fugitive Literature" (essay)
• Gregory Stephenson: "From Cafe to Cave: Footnote to a Lesser Known Adventure in the Life of Brion Gysin" (essay)
• Robert Smithies: photograph
• W.J. Weatherby and William S. Burroughs: "Dressed for Tea" (interview)
• Patrick Fenton: "A Second Look at Allen Ginsberg (essay)
• Tim Hather: "The Importance of Being Gertrude" (on Gertrude Stein)
• Ben Graham: "Electric Tibet (an excerpt)" (prose)
• Jack Grapes: "Bukowski and the Garden Hose" (essay)
• Reggie Hands: "Jack Kerouac's Death in the Afternoon" (essay)
• Kit Knight: "Huncke" (essay)
• Lee A. Scharf: "Tuli" (essay)
• Mel Buffington: photograph
• Fred McDarrah: photograph
• Kurt Hemmer: "I Knew I Should've Taken that Left Turn at Albuquerque: Gregory Corso Meets Charles Bukowski in New Mexico" (essay)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Bernard Kops (1926-2024)" (memorial)
• "Who Was Milton Klonsky?" (essay)
• "Martin Bax (1933-2024)" (memorial)
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• "Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet" (review)
• "And the Beats Go On" (essay)
• Tom Swift: review of The Ed Sanders Revolution:  Rare and Unreleased Recordings 1965-1999
• Dawn Swoop: review of Jack Kerouac, Buddhism and the American Search for Enlightenment – The Diamond Vow by Sarah F. Haynes
• Eric Jacobs: review of Someday We'll Build Cabins: The Letters of Jack Kerouac, Jacques Beckwith and Lois Sorrells Beckwith edited by Bill Morgan
• Colin Cooper: review of Tripping with a Viper: The Unexpurgated True Story of Neal Cassady and Anne Murphy by Anne Murphy
• Michael Kearns: review of Burroughs Unbound: William Burroughs and the Performance of Writing edited by S.E. Gontarski
• Pauline Reeves: review of Alice Notley: Early Works
• Jim Pennington: review of The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened? by James Grauerholz
• John Coleman: review from 1967 of Jack Kerouac's Satori in Paris

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Pauline Reeves and Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlet Letters
• Beat Scene in the USA: Richard Milles