Beating the odds. I remember reading Kerouac’s On The Road (again) on a plane to the US a few years ago. Some find it a depressing read, others are inspired by it. Over the years of reading it various emotions came to me for each different time. This time I got a feeling of optimism, not [...]
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Beatdom: Beating a New Trail.
Posted: April 24, 2010 by Marty in Beat GenerationTags: Beatdom issue 5, David Wills, Edaurdo Jones, George Wielgus, Isaac Bonan, J.S. Mitchell, Josh Chase, Kyle Chase, Michael Shorb
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Beat Scene Magazine
Posted: January 30, 2010 by Marty in Beat Generation, UncategorizedTags: Beat Generation, Beat Scene Magazine, Jack Kerouac, Kevin Ring
After a few months of numerous computer problems Kevin Ring’s site is back in business. Even with the problems Kevin has been working behind the scenes churning out chap-books and of course Beat Scene Magazine. Head to his site here for updates on what is coming and back issues.
Beatdom Issue 5 Coming January 31st
Posted: January 23, 2010 by Marty in Beat GenerationTags: Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Beatdom, Beatdom issue 5, David S. Wills, Jack Kerouac
Beatdom: From the Warped Mind of David Wills. I remember the birth of Beatdom back in 2007, I was supposed to submit an article about the influence of jazz on the Beat Generation but injured my back and was non compos mentis due to the pain killers. I was disappointed not to get the chance to be [...]
Beat Scene 58 Out Now
Posted: April 30, 2009 by Marty in Articles, Beat Generation, My StuffTags: Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Beat Generation, Beat Scene Magazine, Charles Olson, Ed Evans, Edmund Wilson, Gary Snyder, Gonzo, Hunter S Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Jack Spicer, Jay Cowan, Jim Burns, Kevin Ring, Malcolm Reid, Martin Flynn, Mezz Mezzrow, Nanao Sakaki, Pauline Reeves, William Blake, William S Burroughs
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 [...]
In The Next Issue Of Beat Scene Magazine
Posted: February 26, 2009 by Marty in Beat Generation, My StuffTags: Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Beat Scene Magazine, Gary Snyder, Hunter S Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Joan Vollmer, Lew Welch, Nanao Sakaki, Outlaw Journalist, Richard Seaver, RV Cassill, Steven Taylor, William McKeen, William S Burroughs
Coming in the next issue of Beat Scene Magazine. Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Nanao Sakaki (A fine Japanese poet, died last December), Richard Seaver, Joan Vollmer who was the wife of William S Burroughs, she died in Mexico in 1951, shot by Burroughs (an interesting article on that shooting can be found here http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/2008_03_06_archive.html ) Some unpublished material from Gary [...]
Beat Scene Magazine Issue 57
Posted: December 21, 2008 by Marty in Beat GenerationTags: Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Beat Haiku, Beat Scene Magazine, Gonzo, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Kevin Ring, William Burroughs, William S Burroughs
Beat Scene Magazine 57 is out now. On the cover is a picture of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. The Hunter Thompson pieces inside are as follows, Sophia Nitrate’s review of “Conversations With Hunter S. Thompson,” my review of “The Kitchen Readings” and a piece called “Gonzo Returns” where Kevin Simonson talks about the book [...]
Beat Scene Magazine, A History.
Posted: November 6, 2008 by Marty in Beat GenerationTags: Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Beat Scene Magazine, Beef Torrey, Charles Bukowski, Conversations with Hunter S Thompson, David Amram, Hunter S Thompson, Jack Kerouac, jan kerouac, jim burnes, Kevin Ring, Kevin Simonson, Kitchen Readings, Martin Flynn, Patti Smith, Richard Brautigan, Satori in Paris, Sophia Nitrate, William S Burroughs
Over the last few weeks I have been getting emails asking will I be doing more on the Beat Generation. To that end we will be expanding a little on what we have here about the beats. For anyone interested in this sort of read it’s always good to have a regular source of articles and news so [...]
Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road” The Scroll, Coming to Ireland
Posted: October 27, 2008 by Marty in Beat Generation, Book StuffTags: Beat Generation, Beat Scene Magazine, George Mouratidis and Joshua Kupetz, Jack Kerouac, Kevin Ring, Lucien Carr, On the Road, Original Scroll, Penguin Modern Classics, Penny Vlagopoulos
Jack Kerouac’s 120 foot-long scroll of “On The Road” is En Route to the UK and Ireland. It will be on show at the University of Birmingham, UK, from December 3rd 2008 - January 28 2009, and in University College Dublin, Ireland, from February 5 – 27th. (Just down the road from me so I’ll be going to [...]
Beat Scene Issue 16.
Posted: October 22, 2008 by Marty in Beat GenerationTags: Beat Scene Magazine, Charles Bukowski, Charles Plymell, Hunter S Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Jay Jones, Ken kesey, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs
Kevin sent me a copy of “Beat Scene” issue number 16 from 1993 that he found while doing a clear out. Ken Kesey is on the cover. Amongst other things it has a review by Jay Jones of Paul Perry’s book “Fear and Loathing The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson.” Another piece that [...]
William S. Burroughs By Hunter S. Thompson In Rolling Stone.
Posted: August 19, 2008 by Marty in Beat Generation, HST Rolling StoneTags: Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation, Beat Scene Magazine, Charles Bukowski, Dan Fante, gonzo Journalism, Hunter S Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Kevin Ring, Oliver Harris, Rolling Stone magazine, William S Burroughs
By coincidence JR sent me some scans of an obituary in Rolling Stone magazine that includes a piece Hunter S. Thompson wrote about William S. Burroughs, at the same time my Beat Scene magazine issue 56 came in the door from Kevin Ring. Both of which gave me some fodder for to-days post. William S. Burroughs 11th [...]
The Beat Scene Press pocket Book Series.
Posted: July 29, 2008 by Marty in Beat GenerationTags: Beat Generation, Beat Scene Magazine, Ben Pleasants, Charls Bukowski, Dan Fante, David Ohle, Elizabeth Von Vogt, Gary Snyder, Gordan Ball, Jack Kerouac, Jim Burns, John Clellon Holmes, Kevin Ring, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, Richard Brautigan, Tom Clark, William S Burroughs
This morning I received the latest additions to my “Beat Scene Press Pocket Edition Chap Books” So far in the collection there are 17 in total with more to come I’m sure. I still have to get number 5 but with some luck I will have one in hand at some point in time. Their appeal to [...]
