My copy of Beat Scene issue 58 came in the post this morning. It sports a striking front cover image of Jack Kerouac’s “Vanity of Duluoz” UK Quartet from1973.
Kevin Ring has out-done himself with this issue, it is stuffed with features including my review of Outlaw Journalist and my interview (4 pages) with William McKeen called A Sensible Take On A Weird Life: plus my reviews of Hunter S. Thompson: An Insiders View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged out Brilliance and Driving Hunter S. Thompson. By Jay Cowan and Ed Evans respectively.
Also inside is The Girl Who Kissed the Gun and the Bullet that Ate Her: The Life of Joan Vollmer By Christopher Carmona. Jack Wrote in French by Malcolm Reid. Was Jack Ever Here? By Harry Burrus. Nanao Sakaki… a wandering poet recalled by Pauline Reeves. Also inside is Kevin Ring’s great account of when he went to see kerouac’s scroll, and a nice piece by Kevin called Kerouac’s Pictorial Review Jackson. A piece by Jim Burns about R.V Cassill (Jim has also written about Hunter related things in previous issues of Beat Scene.) The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Steven Taylor. A Beat Englishman in New York an interview by Simon Warner. Plus a lot more.
In the Beat Scene Review section there’s reviews about Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Mezz Mezzrow, Jack Kerouac, Jack Spicer, Anne Waldman, Edmund Wilson, William Blake, Charles Olson, Hunter S. Thompson.
As always you can buy this issue or subscribe here http://www.beatscene.net/
I look forward to reading it.
Nice one Marty I must order a copy later. Glad to hear you had a nice adventure last week, pity you didn’t run into Johnny boy!I’ve been up the walls here for the past week but ready to get back into the swing of things again.