Beat Scene, Issue 73, Summer 2014

A photograph of a young Burroughs is on the first page (page 3). 

Eddie Woods contributes "Bill Burroughs in Amsterdam", pp. 11-13, with an image of Burroughs attributed to Louis Cartwright.

At page 33, Ginsberg notes that "William Burroughs doesn't have any money, now, for instance. Burroughs, with all his books. He has money you know like a high school teacher, he doesn't have a lot."

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Summer of 2014.

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

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20140700BSCE.0.73

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• review of Fade Out by Douglas Woolf
• "Write a Madder Letter if You Can" (on Write a madder letter if you can: The letters of Jack Kerouac to Ed White, 1947-1969)
• review of Make Waves by Ruth Weiss 
• review of Damn Fine Letters: The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker, and Kaplan Harris
• Kevin Ring, John Wieners, Lee Harwood, Lewis Marsh, and William Corbett: "Boston Eagles: John Wieners, Lee Harwood, Lewis Marsh, William Corbett" (interviews)
• Carl Landauer: "Gesamtkunstwerk in a Vitrine: Robert Duncan, Jess, and Friends" (essay)
• Eddie Woods: "Bill Burroughs in Amsterdam" (essay)
• Joyce Johnson: "A 'Half-American' Writer" (essay)
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Conversations with Ken Kesey edited by Scott F. Parker
• review of Artists, Beats & Cool Cats by Jim Burns
• Jim Burns: 
• "The Blowtop: An Early Beat Book?" (essay)
• music reviews
• review of Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters, edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano
• Kevin L. Mills: "Jeffers Is My God" (essay)
• Eric Baizer, Reywas Divad, Richard Peabody, and Allen Ginsberg: "Ginsberg on Kerouac: An Interview" (interview)
• Stephen Vincent: "Lew Welch  A Journal of Remembrance" (essay)
• Michael Kearns: review of Harry's House, Vol. II
• Edwin Forrest Ward: "Billy Burroughs' Prediction" (essay)
• Sophia Nitrate: review of The Beat Generation Boxed
• Marcia Ward: photograph
• Eric Jacobs: review of The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac
• Brian Dalton: review of The Garden of Eros: The Story of Paris Expatriates and the Post-War Literary Scene by John Calder
• Dawn Swoop: review of Falling Light by Neeli Cherkovski

Publishing Information:

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