Beat Scene, Issue 111, [Early, i.e. December] Winter 2024

 

This contains multiple Burroughs-relevant items (as well as a number of Brion Gysin-relevant items).

Oliver Harris contributes "Doing Queer Justice", pp. 56-58, on the Burroughs book Queer and Luca Guadagnino's film adaptation with Daniel Craig. Harris was consulted on the film, and supported Daniel Craig on Burroughs.

At page 60, Kevin Ring interviews Luzius Martin about A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive II, edited by Luzius Martin and Miles.

There are also two items related to the Roger Knoebber book Hysteresis: A Profile of Brion Gysin (which includes a recollection of Gysin by Burroughs): an interview by demi raven of Cosmo Knoebber, son of Roger Knoebber, at pages 37-42, and a review of the book by Eric Jacobs at page 62.

A picture of the Grove Press Black Cat edition of Burroughs' The Soft Machine is on the rear cover.

This was published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in late 2024.

This copy was acquired directly from editor Kevin Ring.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Raven 20241200BSCE.0.111

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "Last Words" (editorial)
• "Legends of Little Canada" (review of Legends of Little Canada: Aunt Rose, Harvey's Bookland, and My Captain Jack by Charlie Gargiulo
• "Before the Beats" (essay)
• "Kenneth Rexroth and Liberation" (essay)
• review of The Cambridge Companion to Kerouac, edited by Steven Beletto
• review of T.S. Eliot and Charles Olson: Young Tom and Charlie – Two American Poets at Home in Gloucester by Ann Charters 
• review of Les 100 Mots: De la Beat Generation by Jean-François Duval
• review of Jack Kerouac Self-Portrait: Collected Writings, edited by Paul Maher Jr. and Charles Shuttleworth
• Garrett Caples and Alice Notley: "She Really Enjoyed Him" (interview about Ted Berrigan)
• John Cohassey: "Voices of Their Generation: Kerouac and Hemingway" (essay)
• Malcolm Cowley: letter to Allen Ginsberg
• Peter Coyote: letter to Kevin Ring
• David Button: letter to Kevin Ring
• Keith Kumasen Abbott: "The Dharma Bums: Kerouac's Dust Jacket Copy" (essay)
• Jack Kerouac: "Watching Movies on Television (1966)" (essay)
• Jan Herman: "Ticket to New Jersey: A Portrait of Nelson Algren" (essay)
• demi raven and Cosmo Knoebber: "Roger Knoebber & Brion Gysin – Hysteresis" (interview)
• Udo Breger: photograph
• Ann Charters: "Hettie Jones" (memorial)
• Paul Maher Jr.: "Drunken Dumbshow Kerouac in the 60s" (excerpt)
• Jim Burns: "Rhythm and Blues Beat" (essay)
• Don Henghan: review of Over the Stage of Kansas: New & Selected Poems 1966-2023 by Charles Plymell
• Oliver Harris: "Doing Queer Justice" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Luzius Martin: "A Burroughs Archive" (interview)
• Eric Jacobs: review of Hysteresis: A Profile of Brion Gysin by Roger Knoebber

Publishing Information: 

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