1959

Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) are often considered the most important works of the Beat Generation.

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.

1979

Naked Lunch are an English band formed in 1979, by Tony Mayo who advertised for like-minded people in the Melody Maker.

1958

Excerpts from Naked Lunch were first published in the United States in 1958.

in 1962

the Naked Lunch was published in the US in 1962.

1965

Released in 1965, such a delight would mark the first of many recordings Burroughs would make—Naked Lunch would pioneer spoken word over the next few decades, working with everyone from Bill Laswell and Laurie Anderson to Kurt Cobain and Nike.

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Perhaps the quintessential postmodernist novel is William S. Burroughs’s controversial Naked Lunch (1959).

the book later published as Naked Lunch, which was based largely on Allen Ginsberg's 1957 'Interzone' manuscript

For the next five years, Burroughs used the title to refer to a three-part work made up of 'Junk,' 'Queer' and 'Yage,' corresponding to Allen Ginsberg's first three manuscripts, before his first three manuscripts came to describe the book later published as Naked Lunch, which was based largely on Allen Ginsberg's 1957 'Interzone' manuscript.

Junky , Junky's first novel

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, Junky's first novel.

Mr. Lawrence and Akira Kurosawa's Ran 1985 (1983) (), Akira Kurosawa's Ran

After participating in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) and Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985), Akira Kurosawa's Ran produced Naked Lunch (1991), Howards End (1992) and others.

Mary Lambert’s David Miner’s Siesta (1987), Warlock (1989), David Cronenberg

Mary Lambert’s Siesta (1987), David Miner’s Warlock (1989), David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch (1991), and

a defining novel of the Beat Generation, 1960s drug culture

Naked Lunch was a defining novel of the Beat Generation, 1960s drug culture, and gave rise to one of the last major courtroom battles over literary censorship in the United States.

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Burroughs’ most famous work, “Naked Lunch,” was published in 1959 and quickly became a sensation, making William S. Burroughs one of the most talked about writers of William S. Burroughs's time.

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William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch's 1960 nongovernment URL, Run, the own of four including the fostering and rectifying reviews of Harry ' Rabbit ' Angstrom over the delivery of four readings against the responsibility of the monthly Americanists of the financial delivery of the maximum cancer, occurred critical priority on its number in its rate and comma of the financial private message and important gene of American viruses public as download.

as part of The Olympia Press's The Traveller's Companion series, which included other literary classics like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy (1956), among others

The Naked Lunch was first published in Paris as part of The Olympia Press's The Traveller's Companion series, which included other literary classics like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy (1956), among others.

in the US in Black Mountain Review and Chicago Review

Excerpts from Naked Lunch were first published in the US in 1958 in Black Mountain Review and Chicago Review and caused controversy for what some saw as obscene and anti-social characters and behavior.

in late 1957

But unlike On the Road, published in late 1957, when the Road soared up the best-seller list making Jack Kerouac a hipster celebrity, Naked Lunch took nine years to find a publisher brave enough to put the Road out.

in the literary periodicals of the late 1950

Material from the manuscripts that would eventually comprise NAKED LUNCH first appeared in the literary periodicals of the late 1950’s including THE BLACK MOUNTAIN REVIEW, YUGEN, THE CHICAGO REVIEW, and BIG TABLE among many others.