Beat Scene, Issue 80, [Early] Winter 2015

Some biographical information on Burroughs is in Kevin Ring’s article “Harold Norse & His Bastard Angels”, pp. 16-20, mostly at page 18.

“Demon Logic: Existentialism and Spirituality in three beat writers… William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Alexander Trocchi” by Kevin L. Mills is at pages 28-32.

On the inside back cover is a photograph of William S. Burroughs with Terry Southern, Allen Ginsberg, and Jean Genet at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Winter 2015, about December.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender (v5)
• Raven 20151200BSCE.0.80

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Harold Norse & His Bastard Angels" (essay)
• "Michael McClure – Wallace Berman & Art Is Love" (essay)
• "Dan Fante" (memorial)
• "Richard Brautigan's European Sojourn & an Interview on Swiss television in 1983" (essay)
• review of Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlighetti, edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson
• review of Eyewitness: From Black Mountain to White Rabbit – Carolyn Dunn interviewed by Kevin Killian
• review of Busker's Holiday by Adam Gussow
• Susan Kay Anderson: "Ed Dorn: Teacher Friend" (essay)
• Jennifer Dunbar Dorn: "Rolling Stock: A Chronicle of the Eighties" (essay)
• Karen Schulenburg: photograph
• Raymond Foye: "John Wieners: A Day in the Life" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Michael Curran: "Richard Brautigan: Still Alive" (interview)
• Erik Weber: photograph
• Rick Ardinger: "John Clellon Holmes: An Annotated Bibliography, the intro – 1979" (essay)
• John Clellon Holmes: essay
• Kevin L. Mills: "Demon Logic: Existentialism and Spirituality in three Beat writers.... William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Alexander Trocchi" (essay)
• Jim Burns: "Beat Coast East: An Anthology of Rebellion" (essay)
• David Holzer:
• "One Special Person: listening to Kerouac's magic voice" (essay)
• "David Amram's Gold-Dust: Pull My Daisy Score Finally Available" (essay)
• "Mainlining Astonishment: Letters from 'Terrible Ter' Southern to Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso and Trocchi" (review)
• David Amram: photograph
• Dawn Swoop:
• review of Who Was Sinclair Beiles? edited by Gary Cummiskey and Eva Kowalska
• review of In the Bronx and Other Stories by Jack Micheline
• Brian Dalton:
• review of Allen Ginsberg's Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems, edited by Bill Morgan
• review of Seeing Richard by Erik Weber
• Colin Cooper: review of The Beat Generation FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Angel Headed Hipsters" by Rich Weidman
• Simon A. Morrison: "Still Howling: The Wonder Inn, Manchester, Saturday October 10, 2015" (essay)
• Eric Jacobs: review of Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank's American Cinema by George Kouvaros

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlet Letters