Naked lunch @ 50 : anniversary essays / edited by Oliver Harris and Ian MacFadyen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)

MacFadyen, Ian, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Naked lunch.

Burroughs, William S.

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997--Anniversaries, etc.

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.

Physical Description:

xvi, 283 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illl. (some color) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Naked lunch at fifty

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2009]

Contents:

In defense of perversity: diary entry, 1958 / Jonas Mekas

Dossier one / Ian Macfadyen

The beginnings of "Naked lunch, an endless novel" / Oliver Harris

"Room for one more": the invitation to Naked lunch / Robert Holton

Dossier two / Ian Macfadyen

William S. Burroughs as "good ol' boy": Naked lunch in east Texas / Rob Johnston

Tangier and the making of Naked lunch / Allen Hibbard

"The natives are getting uppity": Tangier and Naked lunch / Kurt Hemmer

"Paris is about the last place...": William Burroughs in and out of Paris and Tangier, 1958-60 /Andrew Hussey

Burroughs: The Beat Hotel year / Jean-Jacques Lebel

Dossier three / Ian Macfadyen

The danger zone / Eric Anderson

I am no doctor / R. B. Morris

The naked lunch in my life / Barry Miles

A bombshell in rhizomatic slow motion: the reception of Naked lunch in Germany

The flaming voice: Naked lunch in apartheid South Africa / Shaun De Waal

"The ideal product...no sales talk necessary": the Olympia Press Naked lunch as collectible and book object / Jed Birmingham

Naked lunch: the cover story / Polina Mackay

Dossier four / Ian Macfadyen

The book, the movie, the legend: Naked lunch / Jennie Skerl

Still dirty after all these years: the continuing trials of Naked lunch / Loren glass

"Gentlemen I will slop a pearl": the (non)meaning of Naked lunch / Davis Schneiderman

Burroughs' visionary lunch / Théophile Aries

Dossier five / Ian Macfadyen

Sole survivor a raving maniac / Gail-Nina Anderson

Random insect doom: the pulp science fiction of Naked lunch / Timothy S. Murphy

All consuming images: DJ Burroughs and me / DJ Spooky

Naked life: William S. Burroughs, bioscientist / Richard Doyle

Dossier six: a little night music / Ian Macfadyen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.

ISBN:

9780809329151

0809329158

9780809329168

0809329166

OCLC:

247964052