Beat Scene, Issue 92, Spring 2019

This issue contains David Holzer's "Revolution by Flicker: The Meaning of the Dreamachine", pp. 28-35, followed by a brief article by Kevin Ring "Brion Gysin's Process." The essay on the Dreamachine contains a number of quotes and biographical details of Brion Gysin, Ian Sommerville, William S. Burroughs in the creation and promotion of the Dreamachine.

Janine Pommy Vega's opinion of Burroughs is mentioned on page 59 in an interview with Kevin Ring ("She never liked him. Hated women.").

There is also an advertisement on the back cover for The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, a film by Jerry Aronson, in which Burroughs is interviewed.

This was published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2019.

This copy was acquired directly from editor Kevin Ring.

Bibliographical Information: 

• Not in Schottlander
• Raven 20190400BSCE.0.92

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Jonas Mekas" (memorial)
• "Brion Gysin's Process" (essay)
• review of Joe Ridgwell's Burrito Deluxe
• review of Jack Micheline's In the Bronx and Other Stories
• "Janine Pommy Vega: A Phone Call" (interview)
• Ann Charters: 
• "Jack Kerouac and The Dharma Bums: A talk given in Lowell, MA. October 2018" (lecture)
• "Collecting and Cataloguing Beat Literature, 1962-2019" (essay)
• Roger Bygott: "Gorton to Ginsberg" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves: "The Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan Tapes" (essay)
• Michael Kearns: 
• "Letter from Jack to Neal... 1951" (essay)
• "Al Hinkle" (memorial)
• review of Tosh Berman's "TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World"
• The Sunflower Collective and Andy Clausen: "Andy Clausen's Latter Days of the Beat Generation" (interview)
• David Holzer: "Revolution by Flicker: The Meaning of the Dreamachine" (essay)
• Jonah Raskin and Tosh Berman: "I'm a Travel Guide Who Isn't Sure Where He's Headed: An Interview with Tosh Berman" (interview)
• Jerry Cimino and Al Hinkle: "Wrastling with the Devil" (interview)
• Chris Torrance: "Meeting Lee Harwood" (essay)
• Bill Gargan: review of Jack Kerouac: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Sources, 1944-1979 by Robert J. Milewski
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review of Before the Brave by Kenneth Patchen
• review of Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• review of Books Artists Beats by Jim Burns
• Colin Cooper: review of Since When: A Memoir in Pieces by Bill Berkson
• Kevin Ring and David Calonne: "Diane di Prima's Visionary Poetics" (interview)
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Bukowski by Aubrey Malone
• review of A Vast Glowing Empty Page: The Life and Work of Jack Kerouac by Paul Maher Jr.
• review of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Donald Hall
• Sophia Nitrate: review of Max Orsini's The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel
• Bella Zundapp: review of How the Beats Begat the Pranksters & Other Adventure Tales by Brian Hassett

Publishing Information: 

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