Beat Scene, Issue 93, Summer 2019

Burroughs-related content in this issue mainly consists of reviews.

On page 53 is Simon Warner’s review of Casey Rae’s William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

On page 55 is editor Kevin Ring’s review of Burroughs and Friends: Lost Interviews, edited by V. Vale.

On page 57 is Tom Swift’s review of William S. Burroughs: Cutting Up the Century, edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan.

Jacob Rabinowitz’s Blame It on Blake, a memoir that references Burroughs, is reviewed by Sophia Nitrate on page 58.

Additional minor mentions of Burroughs are on pages 11, 13, 17, 20, and 43.

Published in Binley Woods, England by Beat Scene Press (Kevin Ring, ed.) in Summer 2019.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20190700BSCE.0.93

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring: "First Words" (editorial)
• Charles Shuttleworth: "'Imaginary Reasons of Dust': Kerouac and Ginsberg's Fraternal Tiffs" (essay)
• Colin Cooper: "The Beats and Hollywood: A Snapshot" (essay)
• Joe Lee: "Robert La Vinge: The Beat Painter Man" (essay)
• Barry Miles: "The Beat Goes On: A Century of Lawrence Ferlinghetti"
• Peter Anastas: "Jack Kerouac's The Haunted Life at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre" (essay/review)
• Leon Horton: "Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Utero" (essay)
• Jill Weiss Simins: "Kenneth Rexroth: Poet, Pacifist, Radical, and Reluctant Father of the Beat Generation" (essay)
• Eduardo Lipschutz-Villa and Michael McClure: "Michael McClure on Wallace Berman & Semina" (interview)
• Tom Swift: "Leroi Jones, Philip Whalen, Ray Bremser... Alexander Hall, Princeton 1959" (essay)
• Kevin Ring: "Charles Bukowski — Letters to Joan Babbage" (essay)
• Simon Warner: review of Casey Rae's William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
• Tom Swift: review of Broken Glory: The Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy by Ed Sanders & Rick Veitch
• Colin Cooper: review of White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns: On the Road with Ginsberg, Writing for Clapton and Cream — An Anarchic Journey by Pete Brown
• Kevin Ring: review of Burroughs and Friends: Lost Interviews, edited by V. Vale
• Brian Dalton: review of On the Road with Cassadys & Further [sic] Visions by Brian Hassett
• Tom Swift: review of William S. Burroughs: Cutting Up the Century edited by Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan
• Sophia Nitrate: review of Blame It on Blake: A Memoir of Dead Languages, Gender, Vagrancy, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Corso & Carr by Jacob Rabinowitz
• Bella Zundapp: review of The People v. Ferlinghetti: The Fight to Publish Allen Ginsberg's HOWL by Ronald Collins and David Skover
• Jim Burns: review of Easy Living by Mitland Zane

Publishing Information: 

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