Beat Scene, Issue 97, Early Sumer 2020

Thomas Antonic contributes “After Vienna… Ilse Burroughs / Dubrovnik, New York: an excerpt from the book Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs in Vienna 1936/37” on pages 37–40. This is accompanied by a photo of Burroughs in Vienna.

On page 41, Thomas Antonic contributes “Some Background on the Making of After Vienna…,” part of an interview.

Page 61 features “Four from Burroughs,” an interview between Kevin Ring and Oliver Harris on new editions of Minutes to Go Redux, The Exterminator Redux, Battle Instructions, and Dead Fingers Talk: The Restored Text.

Additional mentions of Burroughs may be found at pages 5 [in Kevin Ring's "Lew Welch: After Trip Trap"]; 29 and 30 [in Malcolm Hart's "Making a Film about Jack Kerouac"]; and 33 [in Jim Burns' "South of the Border: Down Mexico Way"].

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

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

Bibliographic Information:

• Not in Schottlaender
• Raven 20200700BSCE.0.97

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Lew Welch: After Trip Trap" (essay)
• "Michael McClure: His Shape and His Energy" (essay)
• review of Eigentrieds: Amerikaanske Outlaw en Beat Poezij edited by Troch Lubbert and Bert de Vries
• Brian Dalton: "Jack Kerouac's Letters to Fernanda Pivano" (essay)
• Jack Kerouac: "Jack Kerouac's Montana Letter" (letter)
• Charles Shuttleworth: "'What's Your Road?' Best Seller v. Scroll (A Study of Differences)" (essay)
• Malcolm Hart: "Making a Film about Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• Michael Kearns: "Lewis MacAdams 1947–2020" (memorial)
• Gregory Corso: "Upon Publishing Kirby Doyle... Kaye McDonough: Or the Poet Uncloseted" (essay)
• Jim Burns: 
• "South of the Border: Down Mexico Way" (essay)
• "Lee Konitz" (memorial)
• Thomas Antonic:
• "After Vienna... Ilse Burroughs / Dubrovnik, New York: an excerpt from the book Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs in Vienna 1936/37" (essay)
• "Some Background on the Making of After Vienna" (interview)
• Kurt Hemmer: "'A Lion for Real — Michael McClure'" (essay)
• Diana di Prima: "Letter from Diane di Prima to Ron Whitehead" (letter)
• Tom Marshall: photograph of Michael McClure
• Matthew Corrigan: review of Charles Olson's Archaeologist of Morning, from the 18 July 1971 New York Times
• Tom Clark: "A Note from Tom Clark" (letter)
• Pauline Reeves: 
• review of Little Poems and Musings by Lois Sorrells Beckwith
• review of Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
• review of On Out by Lew Welch
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review of Militants Artists Poets by Jim Burns
• review of Buk 100: My Old Man, A Birthday Greeting
• Colin Cooper: 
• review of Young Jack Kerouac: I Am the Revolutionary by Paul Maher Jr.
• review of The Beats: A Literary History by Steven Belletto
• Tom Swift: 
• review of On Occasion by Joel Oppenheimer
• review of Bukowski: A Life by Neeli Cherkovski
• Kevin Ring and Oliver Harris: "Four from Burroughs" (interview)

Publishing Information: 

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