Beat Scene 67: Charles Bukowski Drawings by Abel Debritto

Kevin Ring’s Beat Scene magazine is a treasure for Bukowski and Beat fans alike. I’m in the “never the twain shall meet” camp, but in this case the exception is deserved. Plus, Kevin’s a good guy who put a lot of work and high production value into each issue of the magazine.

Full contents below, but for Bukowski fans there is an excellent feature by Bukowski scholar Abel DeBritto on Bukowski’s drawing. It is title “Atomic Scribblings From a Manic Age” because it tells the story of Wayne Philpot who convinced Bukowski that he would publish a book of Bukowski’s drawings. It’s a great tale, but Debritto also provides a nice background on his drawings in general.

This copy is in Very Good ++ condition with bumps to the corners and some rubbing on the covers. Issues of Beat Scene are getting harder and harder to find these days.

FULL CONTENTS

•  4...Baz King...An Englishman abroad...an interview

•  8....The Meeting...with William Burroughs by Mark Jacobs

•  10...The Beats, Dubrovnik and Yugoslav Freighters ...the Beat Generation abroad by Vojo Sindolic

•  12...George Whitman... Eddie Woods reflects on the Shakespeare & Co bookman who died recently

•  15...Maggie Cassidy...Fact and Fiction ...Jim Burns goes behind the myths.

•  18...Ed Sanders and Jack Kerouac on Firing Line... Kevin Ring on the Kerouac tv disaster

•  22....William Burroughs Rubs Out the Word....

•  24...The Sea is my Brother...eagerly anticipated early Kerouac work surfaces...we take a look at this work from the 1940s

•  26... Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody: A Tangled History by Kevin Ring

•  34...On Kerouac, Lowell and Doctor Sax by Ollie Thornvall (translated by Ann Charters)

•  38...Walter Salles and the Beat Museum Keep the Spirit of the Beats Alive...by Ilenia Lutz

•  46...Serendipity Books...Berkeley landmark bookstore and a distinctive owner...the end of an Era by Kevin Ring

•  47...Atomic Scribblings from a Maniac Age: The Artwork of Charles Bukowski by Abel Debritto

•  50...The Beat Scene Review Section...Heathcote Williams, Ed Sanders, Carl Weissner, Alice Notley, Jack Foley and Helen Breger, Hunter S. Thompson, Patti Smith, Robert Duncan, Ted Berrigan, Larry Keenan, Iain Sinclar, Jack Spicer

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