Beat Scene, Issue 85, Winter [January] 2017

Jed Birmingham of RealityStudio contributes "William S. Burroughs & John Wieners' Measure", pp. 4-10, an essay on following a lead on a Burroughs contribution in the journal Measure. 

At page 62, Tom Swift contributes a review of Howard Brookner's Burroughs: The Movie.

There is an additional minor mention of Burroughs in Colin Cooper's review of John Calder's memoir Pursuit, at page 54, and another in Brian Dalton's review of Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship by Barney Rosset, p.61.

This was published in Binley Woods, England by Kevin Ring/Beat Scene Press in early 2017.

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

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20170100BSCE.0.85

Selected Contents: 

• Larry Jordan: photograph
• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "David Meltzer: He Was a Poet" (memorial)
• "Jack Kerouac Goes Boom Boom Boom in Italy" (essay)
• review of Paris Painters Poets by Jim Burns
• review of Kenneth White's Travels in the Drifting Dawn
• review of Kodak Mantra Diaries and Other Smoke Signals by Iain Sinclair
• Jed Birmingham: "William S. Burroughs & John Wieners' Measure" (essay)
• Dale Smith and Joanne Kyger: "Energy on the Page: Joanne Kyger in Conversation with Dale Smith" (interview)
• Brian Bell and Allen Ginsberg: "Cosmopolitan Greetings from Allen Ginsberg, London '95" (interview)
• Larry Keenan, Jr.: photograph
• Kevin Ring and Hettie Jones: "Love, Hettie: An Interview" (interview)
• Antoinette May and Lenore Kandel: "Lenore Kandel on Love" (interview)
• Pauline Reeves: "Lenore Kandel's Trial" (essay)
• Kevin L. Mills: "'Post Buk': Charles Bukowski in the Afterlife" (essay)
• Jim Burns: "The Paris Magazine: Its Early History" (essay)
• Chris Felver: photograph
• David Holzer: "Searching for the Secret of the Beat Divine" (essay)
• Tom Swift: 
• review of Conversations with Robert Stone edited by William Heath
• review of Howard Brookner's Burroughs: The Movie
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review of Essential Bukowski
• review of Out-Takes by Diane di Prima
• Michael Kearns: review of My Favourite London Devils: A Gazetteer of Books, Lives and Brief Encounters by Iain Sinclair
• Colin Cooper: review of John Calder's memoir Pursuit
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Allen Ginsberg's The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats, edited by Bill Morgan
• review of Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship by Barney Rosset
• Don Heneghan: review of Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart edited by Krista Halverson

Publishing Information: 

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