By now you will be aware of the recent new film version of QUEER – the novel by William Burroughs. Not seen it myself yet. Not even sure I will. Here Tia Glister gives us her thoughts on the film, and what a tricky book to attempt to film to begin…
Beat Scene First Words
Busy month here in November. A new belated issue of Beat Scene. Number 111. AND a new bigger format Beat Scene Press chapbook. JACK KEROUAC – BEAT TRAVELLER by noted Jack Kerouac biographer and scholar Paul Maher Jr. [Co editor of the new JACK KEROUAC SELF PORTRAIT along with Charles Shuttleworth. As well…
Beat Extras
As the 1960s wound down it got increasingly desperate for Jack Kerouac. This photo here, not sure how I got it, made me think of him, sometimes alone at home, alienated from his old friends, like Allen Ginsberg. Self imposed exile some might call it. In Lowell, in Northport, in Florida. The television…