Beat Scene, Issue 75, Winter [December] 2014

This issue contains an interview by Kevin Ring of Eric Shoaf, “William Burroughs: A Collector’s Guide,” on pages 30–33.

Alexander Adams' essay “Burroughs’s Cut-Up Trilogy” [The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, and Nova Express] is on pages 58–59.

There are additional mentions of Burroughs on pages 50, 51, 52, 56, and 57.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press in late 2014.

This copy was acquired from Jeff Maser, Bookseller (Berkeley, California, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20141200BSCE.0.75

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring: "First Words" (editorial)
• Charles Brittin: "Allen Ginsberg, NYC in 1982" (photograph)
• Ron Loewinsohn: "'This is nothing but a lot of poetry'" (essay)
• Colin Cooper: "Nelson Algren: Early Praise for Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• Paul Lyons: "John Wieners... I Must Forget How to Write" (essay)
• Jerry Cimino: "Neal Cassady's Joan Anderson Letter Found!" (essay)
• Kevin Ring: "Tom Waits Reading Charles Bukowski's Nirvana" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Eric Shoaf: "William Burroughs: A Collector's Guide — an Interview with Bibliographer Eric Shoaf" (interview)
• Dan Poljak: "Pierre Delattre: Beat Shaman" (essay)
• Jim Burns: "-Discovery-: The Story of a 1950s Magazine" (essay)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Allen Ginsberg on Kerouac & Kesey" (transcription)
• David Holzer: "Going Underground Baron's Court, All Change and Terry Taylor" (essay)
• Kevin Ring: review of Iain Sinclair's 70 x 70: Unlicensed Preaching: A Life Unpacked in 70 Films
• Michael Kearns: review of Heathcote Williams' American Porn
• Kevin Ring: review of John Tytell's Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem
• Pauline Reeves: review of Give America a Break: A Tribute to Jack Micheline
• Dawn Swoop: review of Jaguar Harmonics by Anne Waldman
• Colin Cooper: review of Earth Georgrapy
• Brian Dalton: review of Bill BErkson's Expect Delays
• Colin Cooper: review of Henry Miller by David Stephen Calonne
• Brian Dalton: review of Peter Orlovsky: A Life in Words: Intimate Chronicles of a Beat Writer edited by Bill Morgan
• Alexander Adams: "Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy" (essay/review)
• R. I. Sutherland-Cohen: review of The Poetry Deal by Diane di Prima
• Pauline Reeves: review of Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments edited by Tony Trigilio
• Kevin Ring and Justin Martin: "Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians" (interview)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Beat Scene in America: Richard Miller
• Research Assistants: Pauline Reeves, Erin Ring, Dawn Swoop