THIS IS THE BEAT GENERATION

Editor, Kevin Ring, Jazz Editor, Jim Burns, UK Beat Magazine.

CONTENTS:

Beats & Co...all the news that's fit to print

Who Was Albert Halper? by Jim Burns

Jack Kerouac in Florida

Jack Kerouac's THE TOWN AND THE CITY...a reconsideration by Bill Gargan

Jack Kerouac letters up for sale

A Beat Love Affair...Jack Kerouac and Joyce Johnson

WHATNOT...a Talk with Philip Whalen by David Meltzer & co

Charles Bukowski's Italian Job

Harry Crews Gets Naked

John Fante...A Full Life

William Burroughs...Last Notes...Jim Mccrary gives us the inside story

John Clellon Holmes...Really Lost Books

Kenneth Patchen...a new biography

Miriam Patchen...wife of the late poet before she dies

The Beat Scene Review Section...John Fante, Frank Sinatra, Slim Gaillard, William Everson, Ed Sanders, Jack Micheline, William Burroughs, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Miles Davis, Charles Bukowski, Jack Black, Gary Snyder & more