Beat Scene, Issue 57, Winter [late] 2008

This issue contains "Memory Guns", a recollection by Udo Breger of a visit to William S. Burroughs home in Lawrence, KS., and going shooting alongside Steven Lowe, Bill Rich, Fred Aldrich, and David Cronenberg, at pages 42-43.  

Mention of a Burroughs exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts is at page 52. 

A review by Brian Dalton of "And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks" by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is at page 59.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press around December 2008.

The photographs and correspondence from Udo Breger related to "Memory Guns" are in the archive, acquired from editor Kevin Ring.

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

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20081200BSCE.0.57

Selected Contents: 

• Gordon Ball: cover photograph
• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Gregory Corso: 50 Years since Gasoline" (essay)
• "Kerouac's Editor Robert Giroux Dies at 94" (memorial)
• "Larry Rivers" (essay)
• "Bruce Conner" (memorial)
• "Kerouac to Come Home?" (essay)
• review of Matching Half by Anne Waldman, Akilah Oliver, and Ambrose Bye
• Julian Anderson: photograph
• Jack Foley: "Beat Haiku" (essay)
• Mary Kerr: review of The Cool School documentary
• Gui de Angulo: photograph
• Paul Stubbs: "Fifty Years of Gasoline: An Appreciation of Gregory Corso" (essay)
  
• Susan Mitchell: photograph
• Fred McDarrah: photograph
• Larry Keenan Jr.: photograph
• Colin Cooper: 
• "Ginsberg and Snyder on the Road to Portland" (essay)
• review of The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde, edited by David W. Bernstein
• review of Pull My Daisy by Jack Kerouac
• Kevin Simonson: "Gonzo Returns" (essay)
• Lachlan Jobbins and Elizabeth Von Vogt: "681 Lexington Avenue: An Interview with Elizabeth Von Vogt" (interview)
• Udo Breger: 
• "Memory Guns" (essay on Burroughs)
• photograph
• Jim Burns: on How Brave We Live by Paul Monash
• Bob Wilson: "The Phoenix Rising" (essay)
• Pauline Reeves: 
• review of The Walking Away World and We Meet by Kenneth Patchen
• review of HOWL, the movie
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review or Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark by James Campbell
• review of The Four Lost Men by Thomas Wolfe
• review of Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac
• review of The Plot of Il Trovatore and Other Poems by Gerald Locklin
• Sophia Nitrate: review of Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson, edited by Beef Torrey and Kevin Simonson
• Dawn Swoop: review of Don't Stop Don't Stop by The Fugs
• Michael Kearns: 
• review of If I Were Writing This by Robert Creeley
• review of The Holy Forest: The Collected Poems of Robin Blaser
• review of The American Express by Gregory Corso
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition by Jack Kerouac
• review of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
• Martin Flynn: review of The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson, edited by Michael Cleverly and Bob Braudis

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• Research & News: Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters