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| Name: |
William S. Burroughs | | Variant Name: |
William Seward Burroughs, William Lee, Willy Lee | | Birth Date: |
February 5, 1914 | | Death Date: |
August 2, 1997 | | Place of Birth: |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States | | Place of Death: |
Lawrence, Kansas, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of William S(eward) Burroughs
14794 words, approx. 49.3 pages
 Since the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William S. Burroughs has been well known as a legendary figure of the Beat Generation and as an important writer of experimental fiction. As a Beat writer, Burroughs was part of a seminal, postwar literary an...
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Biography of William S(eward) Burroughs
11474 words, approx. 38.2 pages
 Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs first met in Manhattan, New York University sponsored a conference celebrating the legacy of the Beat Generation. Burroughs, whose picture appeared prominently in several places on...
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Biography of William S. Burroughs
7736 words, approx. 25.8 pages
 An innovative and controversial author of experimental fiction, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is best known for Naked Lunch (1959), a bizarre account of his fourteen-year drug addiction and a surrealistic indictment of middle-class American mores. Wil...



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Naked Lunch Information
2,485 words, approx. 8 pages
 Naked Lunch is a novel by William S. Burroughs. It was the third novel he wrote, but was the second of his novels to see publication. The book was first published as The Naked Lunch in Paris in 1959 by Adrien Bisson; an American edition by Grove Press...




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 The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Naked Lunch
05/14/1992: 689 words, approx. 2 pages Mike Kelly The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-14-1992 NAKED LUNCH By Mike Kelly Date: 05-14-1992, Thursday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star, 1 Star The most revealing story about Princeton University's Nude Olympics is...
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 Twentieth Century Literature
Monstrosity on trial: the case of Naked Lunch.
06/22/2006: 11,472 words, approx. 38 pages The court trials and other actions against Naked Lunch provide a moral benchmark. We cannot fail to recognize, in retrospect, the speed with which we assimilate into the mainstream of American life that which was once unspeakable. --Michael Barry Goodman (1) A final...
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 AP News
Eatery to keep 'Naked Lunch' on menu
10/9/2007: 255 words, approx. 1 pages The owner of a Maine eatery says the publicity generated by his "Naked Lunch" has inspired him to keep the special. The Skinny Dip, featuring sliced prime rib in a baguette roll, is free at The Black Frog Restaurant to anyone willing to plunge naked...
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 The New York Observer
Thursday, September 13th
9/11/2007: 269 words, approx. 1 pages Hey Viggo, Vat’s Dat? Canadian director David Cronenberg—who has truly made some cuckoo movies in the past (Naked Lunch, Crash, Spider)—makes an appearance after a screening of Eastern Promises. For those of us who have nursed a crush on Viggo Mortensen since he was the...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Maurice Girodias, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsburg, Carl Solomon, and James Grauerholz
4,807 words, approx. 16 pages
 In the following essay, adapted from a 1974 radio program, Girodias of Olympia Press speaks with William Burroughs, whose controversial novel, Naked Lunch, he published in 1959, and Allen Ginsburg, the author of Howl, which was the subject of a landmark censorship trial in 1957. Also part of the conversation are Carl Solomon, who published Burrough's 1953 book, Junkie as a pulp paperback, and James Grauerholz, Burrough's assistant. The 1962 trial of Naked Lunch was the last major censorship t...
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Critical Essay by William L. Stull
648 words, approx. 2 pages
 [Burroughs] noted that there is an important difference between Naked Lunch and the books that follow …: his adaptation of the cut-up method of Brion Gysin. The Soft Machine develops out of the quest in the early novels, but the question that boldly opens the "Atrophied Preface" at the end of Naked Lunch is perhaps more important than the complex answers to it in the later works. "Wouldn't You?" triggers an elaborate program of anarchic individualism aimed at revita...


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Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs | |
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