Beat Scene, Issue 46, Autumn 2004

Contains "Excerpts from Souvenirs of the Beat Hotel" by Baird Bryant, pp. 28-30, a recollection of a visit to the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris [note: the source material is in my archive].

A review (likely by Kevin Ring) of José Férez Kuri's Brion Gysin: Tuning In to the Multimedia Age is at pages 31-32 (which includes multiple mentions of Burroughs).

A review by Kevin Ring of Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization, edited by Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh, is at page 53.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Autumn of 2004.

This copy was acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, Michigan).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20041000BSCE.0.46

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring;
• "First Words" (editorial)
• review of Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age by José Férez Kuri
• review of Jack Kerouac's Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954, edited by Douglas Brinkley
• "Dan Propper" (memorial)
• "Getting to See McClure" (essay)
• review of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, edited by Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman
• review of Remembered America by Dick McBride
• review of Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization, edited by Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh
• review of Danger on Peaks by Gary Snyder
• review of Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake by Jack Kerouac
• review of Perfumes by Tisa Walden
• Chris Felver: photograph
• Jack Foley and Allen Ginsberg: "'Same Multiple Identity': An Interview with Allen Ginsberg" (interview)
• Pauline Reeves:
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• "Diane di Prima's Poets Press" (essay)
• "Cid Corman" (memorial)
• review of Nell'era Delle Cavallette by Janine Pommy Vega
• review of The Holy Goof: A Biography of Neal Cassady by William Plummer
• review of When I Was Cool by Sam Kashner
• Jay Jeffrey Jones: "First We Take Manhattan, Starring Jack Gelber, The Living Theatre, Norman Mailer, Sam Shepherd [sic]... and a cast of thousands in The Revolution (one night only)" (essay)
• Colin Cooper:
• "Kerouac's Escape to Florida" (essay)
• review of America: A History in Verse, Volume 3 1962-1970 by Ed Sanders
• review of Kerouac: The Definitive Biography by Paul Maher, Jr.
• Steve Edington:
• "In the Presence of the Sacred: Seeing the On the Road Scroll in Milwaukee, Wisconsin" (essay)
• photographs
• Steve Edington and Jim Canary: "Jim Canary: The Keeper of the Scroll" (interview)
• Baird Bryant: "Excerpts from Souvenirs of the Beat Hotel" (memoir)
• Jim Burns: "Carl Solomon" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Allen Hibbard: "Paul Bowles: Magic & Morocco" (interview)
• Dan Fante: "Hubert Selby Jr.: 1928-2004" (memorial)
• David Amram: "Beat Meets East: A Special Report from the Recent Beat Conference in China" (essay)
• Tom Clark and Ken Kesey: "A Little Bit of Magic: Ken Kesey on Writing" (interview)
• Ann Charters: photograph
• Dan Carraco: photograph
• Kate Andrews: "Michael McClure in London" (essay)
• Nemo: review of The Candy Men: The Rollicking Life and Times of the Notorious Novel Candy by Nile Southern
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Jack Kerouac's On the Road: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretation, edited by Harold Bloom
• review of Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers, edited by Nancy M. Grace and Ronna C. Johnson
• review of Last Call: The Legacy of Charles Bukowski, edited by R. D. Armstrong
• review of Jack Kerouac: Verstreute Gedichte
• review of Bukowski at Belle Vue
• review of Selected Stories of Weldon Kees
• Dawn Swoop: 
• review of Fleuve Flaneur by Mary Kite and Anne Waldman
• review of Mencken's America, edited by S. T. Joshi
• Sophie Villiers: review of Mike Hudson's play Beautiful Losers
• Sophia Nitrate: 
• review of Bukowski Review, issue 3
• review of The New York Poets: An Anthology, edited by Mark Ford
• review of L'isa Dalla Tartaruga/Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• A&R: Pauline Reeves
• European Sales Director: Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlett Letters