October 10 there will be a fresh edition of Beat Scene. A digital edition. Not part of any subscription. It is in the way of a fundraiser for the print edition, which needs a little financial help. This digital edition is 80 pages. With lots of colour as you might expect. The usual eclectic…
A NEW BOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF PANIC GRASS. [City Lights Pocket Poets Series No 24, 1968] – CHARLES UPTON, THEN 18, NOW 76. STUDENT OF LEW WELCH. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. A BIG BOOK. GIVING MYSELF AWAY: FROM BEAT GENERATION PROTEGE TO METAPHYSICAL CRITIC. ————————————————————————————————————— These two catalogues are blasts from the past, the pre-digital age. Satori…
BEAT SCENE subscriber Dan Poljak of Pittsburgh reminded me this morning that it was 68 years ago that Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road was published and shortly after a review, an overwhelmingly positive review, of it appeared in The New York Times. Written by a young journalist Gilbert Millstein, that review changed Kerouac’s…