Beat Scene, Issue 62, Spring 2010

In Pauline Reeves’ “Beats & Co.”, Phil Baker’s William S. Burroughs: Critical Lives is mentioned, as well as Yony Leyser’s film William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, p. 4.

An essay by Daniel Bratton entitled “Eric Mottram in America”, pp. 5-10, contains mentions of Eric Mottram’s writing on Burroughs at pages 7-8, accompanied by a couple of photos of Eric Mottram, William S. Burroughs, and Brion Gysin.

Robert Tudor’s “Return to the Beat Hotel”, p. 51, is a review of the film The Beat Hotel, with mention of Burroughs.

A review by Brian Dalton of Phil Baker's William S. Burroughs is at page 37.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2010.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20100400BSCE.0.62

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• review of Mysterious by Michael McClure
• Pauline Reeves:
• "Beats & Co." (news)
• review of Jack Kerouac – Outside Writing: A Pocket Biography by R.J. Ellis
• Daniel Bratton:
• "Eric Mottram in America" (essay)
• photographs
• Allen De Loach: photographs
• Jim Burns: "Migrant" (essay)
• John Cohassey: "Winter of His Discontent" (essay on Jack Kerouac)
• Dawn Swoop:
• "Ed Sanders: The History Man" (essay)
• review of Absence of the Hero by Charles Bukowski
• review of From the Canyon Outward by Neeli Cherkovski
• Dan Fante: "Another Look at the Hollywood Ten" (essay)
• A. Victoria Mixon and Carolyn Cassady: "Gobsmacked! The Carolyn Cassady Interview" (interview)
• Susan Kay Anderson and Virginia Aste: "'Freedom?' Richard Brautigan's First Wife" (interview)
• Erik Weber: photograph
• Virginia Aste: photograph
• Thea Snyder: "Rhoda Ryder's Story" (memoir)
• Brian Dalton:
• "'Soak It in Heroin Doc, and I'll Suck It!'" (review of Phil Baker's William S. Burroughs)
• review of Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson's Correspondence with Donald Allen edited by Ralph Maud
• review of A Guide to an American Subculture by Alan Bishort
• review of Just Kids by Patti Smith
• review of Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way by Joan Qionglin Tan
• Kevin Opstedal: "On the Mesa: Dreaming as One – Poetry, Poets and Community in Bolinas 1967-1980" (essay)
• Ann Charters: photograph
• Colin Cooper:
• review of Charles Bukowski's Scarlet by Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood
• review of Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder
• Gillian Thomson: "Elise Cowen: Standing in the Shadows of Love" (essay)
• Leo Skir: photograph
• Charles Bukowski: "Untitled Essay on d.a. levy" (essay)
• Henry Denander: "Charles Bukowski Never Came to Sweden" (essay)
• Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood: "Charles Bukowski's Scarlet" (excerpt)
• Robert Tudor: "Return to the Beat Hotel" (review)
• Sophia Nitrate:
• review of The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski
• review of Troia: Mexican Memoirs by Bonnie Bremser
• Mike Kearns:
• review of Turn Off Your Mind: The Dedalus Book of the 1960s by Gary Lachman
• review of Eat Not Thy Mind by Charles Plymell
• Kevin Ring and Barry Miles: "London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945" (interview)
• Daniel Poljak: "Doctor Snake and the Great World Snake" (essay)
• Jonathan Williams: photograph

Publishing Information:

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