Beat Scene, Issue 101, Summer 2021

John Kruth discusses William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin extensively in “A Photo of a Photo of the Sky — A Lost Interview with Allen Ginsberg,” pp. 41–45.

A photograph of Brion Gysin is on page 43.

Published in Binley Woods, England, by Beat Scene Press in Summer 2021.

Selected Contents:

• Kevin Ring: 
• "First Words" (editorial)
• "Totem and Corinth" (essay)
• "Joan Haverty's On the Road Intervention" (essay)
• "Helen Weaver: 'In the end I came to agree with Jack'" (essay)
• review of the Paradigm Discs release of William S. Burroughs' Ali's Smile LP.
• review of Sanctuary by Anne Waldman
• review of Alcazar by Ira Cohen
• review of Friendly and Flowing Savage: The Literary Legend of Neal Cassady by Gregory Stephenson
• Jack Foley: "Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'The Splendid Life of the World'" (essay)
• Massimo Sestini: photographs
• Brian Dalton: 
• "City Lights Journal: A Brief History" (essay)
• review of Buk 100: Notes for a Dirty Old Birthday edited by Matthias Kruger and Rebecca McLeish
• review of Bukowski — The Shooting by Abe Franjndlich
• Kevin Ring and Rick Peabody: "Rick Peabody and that different BEAT" (interview)
• Daniel Sklar: "Playing Pool with Jack Kerouac" (essay)
• Kevin Ring and Alessandro Manca: "Jack Kerouac in Italy" (interview)
• John Fles: "The End of the Affair, or Beyond the Beat Generation" (essay, from The Village Voice, 15 December 1960)
• John Kruth and Allen Ginsberg: "A Photo of a Photo of the Sky — a Lost Interview with Allen Ginsberg" (interview)
• Jim Burns: 
• "Dave Cunliffe 1941–2021" (memorial)
• review of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell
• Eric Jacobs: 
• review of Black Mountain Poems, An Anthology edited by Jonathan C. Creasy
• review of Is Baseball Holy? Jack Kerouac and The National Pastime by Gregory Stephenson
• Dawn Swoop: review of A Call for Chaos by William Levy
• Pauline Reeves: review of On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing edited by Ben Estes and Joel Weishaus
• Colin Cooper: review of Please Plant this Book Coast to Coast by Susan Kay Anderson
• Reggie Hands: review of Spring & Autumn Annals & Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima

Publishing Information: 

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