Various (Ring, Kevin (Editor); Abbott, Keith Kumassen; Algren, Nelson; Berrigan, Ted; Burroughs, William S.; Caples, Garrett; Charters, Ann; Cohassey, John; Gysin, Brion; Harris, Oliver; Hemingway, Ernest; Herman, Jan; Jones, Hettie; Kerouac, Jack; Knoebber, Cosmo; Knoebber, Roger; Maher Jr., Paul; Notley, Alice; Raven, Demi; Rexroth, Kenneth et al.)

Beat Scene No. 111 (Winter 2024)

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2024. First Printing. Perfect Bound Wrappers. This hot-off-the-presses latest (as of this writing) Winter 2024 number of the magazine-format literary journal dedicated to the Beat Generation edited, published & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK features an essay on the life & work of classic hard-boiled twentieth-century proto-Beat author Nelson Algren by Jan Herman; an interview with Alice Notley conducted by Garrett Caples on her life with canonical New York School-&-Beyond poet Ted Berrigan; a conversation with Cosmo Knoebber conducted by Demi Raven about his father Roger Knoebber's friendship & collaborations with Brion Gysin (the key associate of William S. Burroughs) & Co. at the legendary 'Beat Hotel' in Paris & afterwards; a comparative study of Ernest Hemingway & Jack kerouac, & their impact on their respective generations, by John Cohassey; excerpt from a new volume of heretofore unpublished Kerouac writings; Keith Kumassen Abbott's piece on an edition of Kerouac's canonical The Dharma Bums with dust jacket artwork based on the author''s description; a memorial tribute to Hettie Jones, the great recently-passed Beat memoirist who with their children was famously abandoned by her husband LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka, by Ann Charters (the foremost Kerouac biographer/bibliographer who is our esteemed colleague at the European Beat Studies Network, ebsn.eu); an article by Ring on the perenially dyspeptic but most-important Beat mentor Kenneth Rexroth; & yet more. With, as ever, a robust review section including of the newly released film version of WSB's novel Queer (which we highly recommend) by Dr. Oliver Harris, Foremost Burroughsian & our most-esteemed colleague at EBSN, of which he is the founding leader. Harris was a consultant to the filmmakers, & as always provides the deepest insights. With many contemporary images throughout including a bold, haunted-heroic painted image of Kerouac (uncredited) on front cover. Another more-than-ever rich & rewarding issue in the indispensable series that never fails to uphold its front cover motto: "This is the Beat Generation." See our many other issues of Beat Scene & other special BSP productions (including item No. 7313). In very fine as-new condition with only a touch of rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same. Interior very fine with only tiny bumps & small, faint creases at mostly upper corners of some page leaves. Very Fine. [Item #7311]

Price: $35.00