Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)
• MacFadyen, Ian, 1952-

Description

xvi, 283 p., [8] p. of plates : illl. (some col.); 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Naked lunch at fifty

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 09-3644

ISBN

• 9780809329151 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0809329158 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780809329168 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0809329166 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008039686

OCLC

247964052

Title

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

Imprint

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009.

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)

MacFadyen, Ian, 1952-

Research Call Number

JFE 09-3644