Beatdom, Issue 20 ("The Post-Beats Issue"), n.d. [2020]

A section of David S. Wills' "Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats" focuses on William S. Burroughs on pages 19-24.

Westley Heine contributes "William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Drugs, and Control: When the Beats Split into the Hippies and the Punks", pp. 77-97.

There is some small mention of Burroughs and his work for Esquire in Leon Horton's "The Beaten Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg, Thompson... and the Battle for Chicago", pp. 129-174.

An advertisement for Chris Kelso's Burroughs and Scotland: Dethroning the Ancients: The Commitment of Exile is on the back cover.

Published in Scotland by Beatdom (David S. Wills) in mid-to-late 2020.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20200000BEAT.0.20

Contents: 

• Waylon Bacon: cover art
• David S. Wills: "Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats" (essay)
• Ambar Geerts Zapién: "'Pregnancy Always Makes Me Want to Fuck More': Sexual and Maternal Desire Entanglements in Diane di Prima" (essay)
• Eliot Katz: "Would Trump's Wall Perform Magic Tricks?" (poetry)
• Eliot Katz: "Trump Releases a Paper with His Ukrainian Crimes" (poetry)
• James Reidel: "The Encounter Robinsonian: Weldon Kees and Denise Levertov, April–October 1955" (essay)
• Robert Niemi: "Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century" (essay)
• David Daniel and John Sampas: "An Interview with John Sampas" (interview)
• Westley Heine: "William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Drugs, and Control: When the Beats Split into the Hippies and the Punks" (essay)
• Noel Dávila and Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan: "Chasing Hunter's Literary Persona through the Pages: a Conversation with Hunter S. Thompson Scholar, Dr. Rory Patrick Feehan" (interview)
• Leon Horton: "The Beaten Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg, Thompson... and the Battle of Chicago" (essay)
• David S. Wills: "A Shoe that Fits the Mind: Ginsberg's South American Journals" (essay)
• Ryan Matthews: "The Deconstruction and Resurrection of Bob Kaufman" (essay)
• Mark Fisher: artwork
• Leon Horton: "Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Utero" (essay)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: David S. Wills