Coming quite soon – Beat Scene 109 – Winter 2024. Burroughs, Diane di Prima, the Beats in North Dakota, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, McBride Brothers & Broadley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and more. Simply the Beat Generation and associated figures. If you would like a copy please email kevbeatscene@gmail.com Pattismith.substack.com is a place where Patti…
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Back Up And Running! You might have noticed this site has not been up for a week or so, or it may have looked a little curious. Last Sunday around early evening it got hacked. No ransom note, anything like that. The blighters just destroyed EVERYTHING. Oddly I wasn’t fazed by it. The past…
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Opening up this page you will see a very early issue of Beat Scene number 14. Sporting a posed picture of William Burroughs and film director David Cronenberg – during the making of NAKED LUNCH. It was a daring film, it must have been a dickens of a task getting it onto the big screen….