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6 unusual facts about Naked Lunch


Bug Powder Dust

Burroughs' most famous work, Naked Lunch, made famous his cut-up style of composition, which, alongside the subject matter of his novels, sought to question reality, mimic the brutality of sensory overload in modern life, and reproduce the confusion of inner-logic smashed by drugs.

Call Me Burroughs

All of the readings were from Burroughs' novels Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and Nova Express.

Future Legend

The narrative has been compared to the writings of William Burroughs, particularly such phrases as "a baying pack of people" in Naked Lunch.

Hunterland

After being part of the Naked Lunch @ 50 symposium in Paris, Harris and Styx were inspired to complete this ambient homage to William S. Burroughs and his seminal work Naked Lunch.

Jo the Waiter

The phrase "Young men need love special" is a quote from Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch.

Naked Lunch

Antony Balch, who worked with Burroughs on a number of short film projects in 1960s, considered making a musical with Mick Jagger in the lead role, but the project fell through when relationships soured between Balch and Jagger.


Gay male pulp fiction

Beginning around 1964, the more than a decade of challenges to U.S. censorship laws applied to literary novels such as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Portnoy's Complaint, and Naked Lunch had redefined legal standards for obscenity.

John Clute

Appleseed comes across as a peyote-powered academic experiment, a fusion of William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky...

Richard G. Stern

The "beat edition" of the Review was to include excerpts from Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs, and a few Jack Kerouac stories.


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Richard G. Stern

It recounts Stern's successful attempt not only to save the review (the University President at the time, Lawrence A. Kimpton, wished to stop funding the journal) but to keep the following issue from dropping any of the pieces (of Naked Lunch and other "beat" works) that had been accepted.