Beat Scene, Issue 67, Spring 2012

Mark Jacobs’ “The Meeting, at pp. 8-9, is about an encounter with William S. Burroughs at CCNY.

In “The Beats, Dubrovnik and Yugoslav Freighters” by Vojo Sindolic, pp. 10-13, discusses Burroughs’ time in Dubrovnik in 1936 and 1937.

A review by Michael Kearns of Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974, edited by Bill Morgan, is at page 22. This has an uncredited photo of Burroughs by Lufti Özkök.

Some discussion of Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs is in Eddie Woods’ “George Whitman”, pp. 23-25.

An advertisement for The Face on the Fork: A William Burroughs Triptych by Iain Sinclair is at page 37.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2012.

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20120400BSCE.0.67

Selected Contents: 

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Ed Sanders and Jack Kerouac on Firing Line" (essay)
• "Jack Kerouac's Vision of Cody: A Tangled History" (essay)
• "Serendipity Books: The End of an Era" (essay)
• review of Sketches Political by Helen Breger and Jack Foley
• Kevin Ring and Basil King: "Basil King Learns to Draw" (interview)
• Sanjay Angnihotri: photograph
• Vojo Sindolic: "The Beats, Dubrovnik and Yugoslavian Freighters" (essay)
• Eric Jacobs: review of The Sea Is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
• Jim Burns: "Maggie Cassidy: Fact and Fiction" (essay)
• Michael Kearns: 
• review of Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974
• review of The H.D. Book: The Collected Writings by Robert Duncan
• Eddie Wood: "George Whitman" (essay)
• Lufi Özkök: photograph
• Chris Felver: photograph
• Olle Thornvall: "On Kerouac, Lowell and Doctor Sax" (essay)
• Adam McDade: drawing
• Ilenia Lutz: "Walter Salles and the Beat Museum Keep the Spirit of the Beats Alive" (essay/interview)
• Abel Debritto: "Atomic Scribblings from a Maniac Age" (essay)
• Colin Cooper: 
• "Hip and Beat England" (review)
• review of After Spicer: Critical Essays, edited by John Emil Vincent
• Dawn Swoop: review of Court Green, issue 9 ("Dossier: The Short Poem") edited by Tony Trigilio and David Trinidad
• Pauline Reeves: review of Songs and Stories of the Ghouls by Alice Notley
• Brian Dalton: 
• review of Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side by Ed Sanders
• review of Camera Solo by Patti Smith
• Derek Page: 
• review of Forbidden Fruit: Meditations on Science, Technology, and Natural History by Heathcote Williams
• review of Dear Sandy, Hello: Letters from Ted Berrigan to Sandy Berrigan, edited by Sandy Berrigan and Ron Padgett
• Kevin Ring and Kurt Hemmer: "Larry Keenan: Capturing the Beats" (interview)
• Kevin Ring and Margaret Harrell: "Keep this Quiet: My Relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, and Jan Mensaert" (interview)
• Keith Sweard: "In Memory of Carl Weissner" (memorial)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Assistant Editor: Jim Burns
• News & Research: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring
• Layout: Scarlett Letters