Beat Scene, Issue 96, Spring 2020

Jed Birmingham discusses Albatross, Iain Sinclair’s elusive periodical, on pages 20–23. This is a Burroughs rarity.

David Holzer contributes “A Story of Blade Runner” on pages 36–43, with images of Burroughs.

Michael Kearns reviews the Tangerine Press edition of William S. Burroughs’ Blade Runner: A Movie on page 59.

Additional mentions of William S. Burroughs are found on pages 9 [in Kevin Ring's "Jack Kerouac Almost Gets a Job (in Lowell)"]; 12 [in Colin Cooper's "Jack Kerouac's Lost Letter to the Chicago Review"]; 27 [in "Arthur Knight, Stella Sampas and Sterling Lord"]; and 49 [in Sophia Nitrate's memorial "John Giorno 1936–2019"].

Published in Binley Woods, England, by Beat Scene Press in Spring 2020.

This copy was acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, Michigan, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20200400BSCE.0.96

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring:
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Jack Kerouac Almost Gets a Job (in Lowell)" (essay)
• "Charles Bukowski & Joan Babbage: Part Two of a Postscript" (essay)
• review of The View from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Bathroom Window by Ron Whitehead
• Paul Dobbs: "Is America Sleeping?" (essay)
• Leo DeNatale: "Ginsberg Beats Time: Avant Garde Member Lost in the Shuffle" (essay, from the 5 April 1975 Beverly Times)
• Colin Cooper:
• "Jack Kerouac's Lost Letter to the Chicago Review" (essay/letter)
• review of Tawny Grammar by Gary Snyder
• review of The Buk Book: Musings on Charles Bukowski by Jim Christy and Claude Powell
• Alan Wilkinson: "Charles Bukowski: Art, Survival and So Forth" (essay)
• Jed Birmingham: "Albatross" (essay)
• letters
• Arthur Knight and Stella Sampas: "Arthur Knight, Stella Sampas and Sterling Lord" (essay/letters)
• Brian Hassett: "Kerouac in Provincetown: How History Could Have Been Different, Kerouac's and Otherwise" (essay)
• David Holzer: "A Story of Blade Runner" (essay)
• Brian Dalton:
• "A City Lights Catalogue Fall 1961" (essay)
• review of Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl' Generation, edited by Deborah R. Geis
• review of Live at the Beat Museum 2018 and Other Recordings from the Archive by ruth weiss
• Eric Jacobs:
• "The Subterraneans: A Film Soundtrack" (essay)
• review of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience by Allen Ginsberg and Steven Taylor
• Sophia Nitrate: "John Giorno 1936–2019" (memorial)
• Pauline Reeves: review of The Great Cloud by Gary Snyder
• Joe Lee: "San Francisco Beat Era Art Collection" (essay)
• Simon Warner: review of The Beats: Authorship, Legacies by A. Robert Lee
• Kevin Ring and Raymond Foye: "Bob Kaufman Speaks Again" (interview)
• Michael Kearns: review of the Tangerine Press edition of Blade Runner: A Movie by William S. Burroughs
• Kevin Ring and Jennie Skerl: "Ed Sanders: Still in the Rebel Cafe" (interview)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Kevin Ring
• Deputy Editor: Jim Burns
• Research: Erin Ring and Pauline Reeves
• Layout: Scarlet Letters
• Beat Scene in America: Richard Miller