Beat Scene, Issue 70, Spring 2013

This issue is somewhat spotty on Burroughs.

On the rear cover is a reproduction of the Ace edition of Burroughs’ [as William Lee] book Junkie.

At page 9 is an advertisement for the chapbook Milwaukee, which is a memoir of the making of the film Beat by Gary Walkow – there are some interesting Burroughs recollections in this book.

At pages 58-59 is a memorial article on Arthur Knight, who published Burroughs; an image of The Beat Journey, which has Burroughs’ face on its cover, is shown at page 59.

There is also a note on the publishing of Scientologist: William S. Burroughs and The 'Weird' Cult by David Mills [sic, Wills] at page 35, in the "Beats & Co." section.

There are also some mentions of Burroughs in Kevin Ring's "Where Is Liza Williams?", p.43, in the context of essays that Liza Williams wrote about Burroughs published in The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats.

Burroughs is additionally lightly mentioned in David J. Krajicek's essay "The Last Beat", on Lucien Carr, at pp. 46-49, in the context of the David Kammerer murder.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in Spring of 2013.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20130400BSCE.0.70

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "See Ya Later Alligator Jive" (review of Simon Warner's Text and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll)
• "Where Is Liza Williams?" (essay)
• review of the film Sur La Route
• "Arthur Knight" (memorial/interview)
• Gregory Stephenson: "Pilgrimage to the Promised Land: Sal Paradise in Cheyenne" (essay)
• Alan Wilkinson: "The Road from Then to Now" (essay on Carolyn Cassady)
• Kevin Ring and Stephanie Nikolopolous: "Burning Furiously Beautiful" (interview on Kerouac)
• R. I. Sutherland-Cohen: "Beat Generation, 3-Act Play by Jack Kerouac: A Reaction to the World Premiere Staged Reading" (essay)
• Ann Charters: "A Comment from Ann Charters on Walt Whitman" (errata)
• Jim Burns: "Hard Travelling on the Road in the Thirties" (essay)
• Brian Dalton:
• "Susan Howe's Nineteen Ways" (review)
• review of How to Live on Planet Earth by Nanao Sakaki
• review of Soldatesque/Soldiering by Anne Waldman, Noah Saterstrom, Daniel Carter, and Ambrose Bye
• Eliot Katz: "Holy Roll, Jelly Soul" (essay)
• Richard Deakin:
• "From the Screenplay 'Angels Still Falling': The TV Talk Show Scene, An Introduction" (essay)
• "Angels Still Falling" (script)
• Neeli Cherkovski: "North Beach Memoir: Visits with Philip Lamantia" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Lisa Jarnot: "Dobert Duncan: Ambassador from Venus" (interview)
• David J. Krajicek: "The Last Beat" (essayon Lucien Carr)
• Joyce Johnson: "Kerouac's Lost Movie" (essay)
• Colin Cooper:
• review of The Piano Poems: Live from San Francisco by Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek
• review of Evelyn Toynton's Jackson Pollock
• review of Huncke: A Poem by Rick Mullin
• review of On the Road: The Official Movie Companion
• Eric Jacobs:
• review of Home of the Blues: More Selected Poems by Andy Clausen
• review of Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays edited by Peter Quartermain
• review of Keep This Quiet Too: More Adventures with Hunter S. Thompson, Milton Klonsky, Jan Mensaert by Margaret Harrell
• Dawn Swoop: review of Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer by Frederick Turner
• Sophia Nitrate: review of Charles Bukowski by David Stephen Calonne

Publishing Information:

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