Naked Lunch

...natural endorphins and various chemical rewards. To understand more of this, read "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs, a semi-autobiographical voyage through addiction and drugs. (forgive him for being out-of-date…and often out of his...

In this article: Jim Dale, Caffeine, Endorphin, Harry Potter, William S. Burroughs, and New York

...of control, and have led to much controversy. By decentralizing the plot Burroughs produces a series of interrelated literal caricatures, satires, and parodies throughout the novel. Burroughs states in his introduction that Jack...

In this article: William S. Burroughs, Benway, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, David Cronenberg, and Chicago Review

...the age of 83. First published 50 years ago, William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch is a dark, wild ride through the terror of heroin addiction and withdrawal, filled with paranoia, erotica and drug-fueled hallucinations. In an...

In this article: William S. Burroughs, American Academy, Lincoln Park, Grove Press, Pound cake, Catnip, and Anne Waldman

...William Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch. He wrote it at the Villa Muniria in Tangier and revised it for publication at the Paris rooming house known as the Beat Hotel; it was not written at the Chelsea. (Go to Article) To find reference...

In this article: Chelsea Hotel, William Burroughs, Tangier, Beat Hotel, Villa Muniria, Paris, and New York Times

...confrontation with his materials in order to create. He wrote in Naked Lunch: "There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing. " Painting provided a slightly different intimacy and...

In this article: Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Materiality, Dog, The Dark Eye, and Interzone

...fiction paperbacks Fifty years after William Burroughs's masterpiece was first published, and with the bans and obscenity trials it provoked now belonging to another time, the power of Naked Lunch remains undiminished. With Jack Kerouac's...

In this article: William Burroughs, Interzone, Barry Miles, Benway, On the Road, Jack Kerouac, and Josef Mengele

...foreigners. This is where William S. Burroughs wrote the bulk of "Naked Lunch," which marks its 50th anniversary next year, and where Paul Bowles completed his haunting and existential cult classic, "The Sheltering Sky." Today in Travel...

In this article: Tangier, William S. Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Mohammed VI, Marrakesh, Europe, North Africa, Morocco, and Hashish

...a while but then when Grove Press came out with it, he had a much wider circulation. " However, Ferlinghetti turned down William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. "Allen Ginsberg gave me an early version to read, it was a manuscript that was more or...

In this article: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, Big Sur, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Beat, Jack Kerouac Alley, Grove Press, and San Francisco

...the birthday, as well. Conferences commemorating the book are planned for early July in Paris, where a collection of essays about Naked Lunch will be released by eminent Burroughs scholars Oliver Harris and Ian MacFayden. This will be followed...

In this article: William S. Burroughs, Baboon, Benway, Morphine, New York City, American Academy of Arts, Oliver Harris, and Mona Lisa