Beat Scene, Issue 44, Winter [December] 2003

Only minor mentions of Burroughs – in "Jack Kerouac's Last Days" by James Birmingham, and in "Evergreen Review" by Jim Burns.

An image of Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, and William S. Burroughs appears in an advertisement for an exhibition of photographs by Gordon Ball in Ontario entitled “Ginsberg and Beat Fellows”.

Another image of Burroughs is at page 40 in the “Evergreen Review” essay by Jim Burns.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in late 2003.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20031200BSCE.0.44

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Paul Blake and Jack Kerouac's Last Letter" (essay)
• "Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac: The Lowell Connection" (essay)
• review of SOHO: The Rise and Fall of an Artists' Colony by Richard Kostelanetz
• review of Robert Duncan, Letters: Poems 1953-1956
• review of Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews & Encounters 1963-1993, edited by David Stephen Calonne
• review of Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees by James Reidel
• review of Live from Nowhere by Greg Keeler and Friends
• review of Mineshaft, issue 11
• review of Michael McClure by Rod Phillips
• review of Epiphany at Goofy's Gas by Greg Keeler
• letters
• Kevin Ring and Aubrey Malone: "The Hunchback of East Hollywood" (interview)
• David Amram: "An Open Letter from David Amram" (letter)
• Kevin Ring and John Dullaghan: "Bukowski: Born into This, directed by John Dullaghan" (interview)
• Michael Montfort: photograph
• Robert Berg: photograph
• Kevin Ring and Kevin Killian: "Jack Spicer's Circle: Where Are They Now?" (interview)
• Colin Cooper: 
• "Lenore Kandel" (essay)
• review of Back-Bukowski by Willem Van Ekeren
• review of Battery: Live at Naropa by Anne Waldman
• review of Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & The Construction of the Underworld by Clayton Eshleman
• Trevor Carolan and Andrew Schelling: "A Conversation with Andrew Schelling" (interview)
• Ann Charters: photographs
• James Birmingham: "Jack Kerouac's Last Days" (essay)
• Dawn Swoop: 
• "Trocchi" (essay)
• review of Bread & Fish by Mark Terrill
• Ian Green: "The Diggers of Haight-Ashbury: Standing on a Street Corner Doing Nothing Is Power, Part 2" (essay)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Evergreen Review" (essay)
• review of the film Young Adam
• Dennis McNally: "Prophets on the Burning Shore: Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and San Francisco" (essay)
• Chris Felver: photograph
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Intrepid, issue 9, December 1967
• review of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
• "George Plimpton" (memorial)
• review of The Cafe Review, volume 14, Summer 2003
• review of In Ruins by Gary Lawless
• review of The Collected Later Poems of Joel Oppenheimer edited by Robert J. Bertholf
• Tom Clark: "Howard Hart" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Willem Van Ekeren: "Bukowski Goes Classical" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Bill Morgan: "The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Dennis McNally: "Desolate Angel Revisited" (interview)
• Jay Jeffrey Jones: review of The Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant-Garde by Lewis MacAdams
• Sophia Nitrate: review of A Bastard Child with No Place to Go by A. D. Winans

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Jazz Editor: Jim Burns
• News and Research: Pauline Reeves
• European Sales: Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlett Letters