1991

Naked Lunch was released on 27 December 1991 in a limited release of 5 theaters, grossing $64,491 on 5 theaters's opening weekend.

Burroughs’s landmark 1959 novel

Burroughs’s landmark 1959 novel Naked Lunch was the product of Kesey's own troubled life as an addict and offered so much drug talk that Burroughs included a glossary of terms.

in 1959

Refused by the American publishers to whom Burroughs submitted the manuscript, Naked Lunch first appeared in Paris under the Olympia Press imprint in 1959, the same year that Burroughs was permanently cured of Burroughs's addiction.