Beat Scene, Issue 40, March/April 2002

Multiple minor Burroughs mentions.

This includes a brief comment on the publication of Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997 in the "Beats & Co." section on page 4.

Discussion of Burroughs' relationship with Scientology is mentioned in "Ken Kesey, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary: Brave New Worlds" by Jay Jeffrey Jones at page 51.

A review by Tony Wade of the catalog An American Avant Garde: First Wave for the exhibition of the same name, which included William S. Burroughs, is at page 56.

A review by Mac Evans for Jason Weiss' Back In No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader (which contains some Burroughs material) is at page 61.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in March, 2002.

Bibliographic Information:

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Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "David Gascoyne" (memorial)
• "Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek: Words & Music" (review)
• "Ken Kesey Goes Further" (essay)
• review of Jack Kerouac's Nine Lives, essays by Jim Jones
• review of Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son... Allen and Louis Ginsberg edited by Michael Schumacher
• review of Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac by David Amram
• review of A Gun Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor [sic] V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles by Dan Fante
• review of Adrift in SOHO by Colin Wilson
• Pauline Reeves:
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• review of Doctor Sax by Jack Kerouac
• review of The Three Angels: Original Beat Poetry by Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg
• Larry Keenan:
• "City Lights Celebrates" (photographs)
• photographs of Michael McClure, Ken Kesey, others
• Jack Foley and Michael McClure: "'What Are Souls?' – An Interview with Michael McClure" (interviews)
• Tom Marshall: photograph
• Ann Charters: photograph
• Lee & Phyllis Streiff: photographs
• Ryder McClure: photograph
• Michael McClure and Vojo Sindolic: "Michael McClure: Poems and Letters to Vojo Sindolic" (poetry, letters)
• Denise Enck: "Michael McClure: A Selective Bibliography, 1956-2001" (bibliography)
• Dee Hall: "Neal's Legacy: Driving with Cassady" (essay)
• Jim Burns:
• "The Quiet Man: John Clellon Holmes" (essay)
• review of Jazz in American Culture by Peter Townsend
• Michael Hrebeniak: "In Memoriam: Fielding Dawson" (memorial)
• Jay Jeffrey Jones:
• "Ways to Fly: A reflection on the passing of Ken Kesey (1935-2001)" (essay, memorial)
• "Ken Kesey, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary – Brave New Words" (essay)
• Christopher Felver: photograph
• Colin Cooper:
• review of Positively 4th Street: The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina by David Hajdu
• review of Artists In Trouble: New Stories by Aram Saroyan
• review of Solid Citizen: Charles Bukowski Live in Hamburg 1978 by Charles Bukowski
• review of 13 Poems by Stuart Z. Perkoff
• Dawn Swoop:
• review of The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps: New Poems by Charles Bukowski
• review of City Blues by A. D. Winans
• review of The Diamond Sutra: Text and Commentaries Translated from Sanskrit and Chinese by Red Pine
• review of The Third Mind by Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure
• review of Goof Book for Jack Kerouac by Philip Whalen
• review of Hozomeen Jam with music by David Amram
• review of Psychedelic Jazz and Soul
• review of Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante by Stephen Cooper
• Brian Dalton:
• review of Spitting Off Tall Buildings by Dan Fante
• review of Mineshaft, issue 7, October 2001
• review of The Cafe Review, volume 12, Fall 2001
• review of Stroker, number 72
• review of Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg at Hollhock by Trevor Carolan
• review of Black Magic Blues by Magic Sam
• review of A History of Jazz: Classics & Rarities, Volume 1
• review of From Iceland to Kentucky and Beyond
• "DB" and Gerard Malanga: "Archiving Warhol: An Illustrated History by Gerard Malanga" (interview)
• Tony Wade: review of An American Avant Garde: First Wave
• Kevin Ring and Henry Ferrini: "Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac, A Film by Henry Ferrini" (interview)
• Mac Evans: review of Back In No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader, edited by Jason Weiss
• Ron Whitehead: review of The Importance of Being by Christopher Felver
• David McDonough:
• review of Patti Smith: Early Work 1970-1979 as translated by Vojo Sindolic
• review of To Be a Poet Is to Be by Jack Micheline

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• News & Research: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Woollardo Galatasary