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Naked Lunch

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Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) is a novel by American writer William S. Burroughs, originally published in 1959. [1]

50 relations: Addiction, Allen Ginsberg, Antony Balch, Banned in Boston, Bill Morgan (archivist), Black Mountain poets, Boston, Capital punishment, Chicago Review, Child murder, Chuck Barris, Cut-up technique, David Cronenberg, Dennis Hopper, Dr. Benway, Evergreen Review, Grove Atlantic, Grove Press, Hardcover, Hashish, Irving Rosenthal, Jack Kerouac, Junkie (novel), Limbo, Majoun, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Mick Jagger, Morphine, Naked Lunch (film), Norman Mailer, Obscenity, Oliver Harris, Olympia Press, Opioid, Oxycodone, Paperback, Pedophilia, Peter Weller, Robert Creeley, Sadomasochism, Tangier, Time (magazine), Totalitarianism, Transworld Publishers, United States obscenity law, United States Post Office Department, University of California Press, University of Chicago, Vignette (literature), William S. Burroughs.

Addiction

Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Antony Balch

Antony Balch (10 September 1937 – 6 April 1980) was an English film director and distributor, best known for his screen collaborations with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs in the 1960s and for the 1970s horror film, Horror Hospital.

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Banned in Boston

"Banned in Boston" was a phrase employed from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, to describe a literary work, song, motion picture, or play which had been prohibited from distribution or exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Bill Morgan (archivist)

Bill Morgan is an American writer, editor and painter, best known for his work as an archivist and bibliographer for public figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Abbie Hoffman, and Timothy Leary.

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Black Mountain poets

The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid-20th-century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Chicago Review

Chicago Review is a literary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.

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Child murder

Child murder or child homicide is the homicide of an individual who is a minor.

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Chuck Barris

Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer and host.

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Cut-up technique

The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

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David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian director, screenwriter and actor.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist.

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Dr. Benway

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Evergreen Review

Evergreen Review is a U.S.-based literary magazine directed by editor-in-chief Dale Peck.

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Grove Atlantic

Grove Atlantic, Inc. is an American independent publisher, based in New York City, New York, that was formed in 1993 by the merger of Grove Press and Atlantic Monthly Press.

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Grove Press

Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947.

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Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Hashish

Hashish, or hash, is a drug made from cannabis.

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Irving Rosenthal

Irving Rosenthal (December 5, 1895 – December 27, 1973) was an amusement company owner who, along with his brother Jack Rosenthal, operated the Palisades Amusement Park near Cliffside Park and Fort Lee, New Jersey, from 1934 until its closing in 1971.

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.

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Junkie (novel)

Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (originally titled Junk, later released as Junky) is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953.

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Limbo

In Catholic theology, Limbo (Latin limbus, edge or boundary, referring to the "edge" of Hell) is a speculative, non-scriptural idea about the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned.

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Majoun

Majoun or majun (معجون) is a Moroccan confection, which can resemble a pastry ball, fudge, or jam.

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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Morphine

Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate variety which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals.

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Naked Lunch (film)

Naked Lunch is a 1991 science fiction drama film co-written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider.

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Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist.

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Obscenity

An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time.

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Oliver Harris

Oliver Harris is a British academic and Professor of American Literature at Keele University.

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Olympia Press

Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebranded version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane.

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Opioid

Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects.

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Oxycodone

Oxycodone, sold under brand names such as Percocet and OxyContin among many others, is an opioid medication which is used for the relief of moderate to severe pain.

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Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Pedophilia

Pedophilia, or paedophilia, is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

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Peter Weller

Peter Francis Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, television director, and art historian.

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Robert Creeley

Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books.

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Sadomasochism

Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.

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Tangier

Tangier (طَنجة Ṭanjah; Berber: ⵟⴰⵏⴵⴰ Ṭanja; old Berber name: ⵜⵉⵏⴳⵉ Tingi; adapted to Latin: Tingis; Tanger; Tánger; also called Tangiers in English) is a major city in northwestern Morocco.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Totalitarianism

Benito Mussolini Totalitarianism is a political concept where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to control every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.

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Transworld Publishers

Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.

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United States obscenity law

United States obscenity law deals with the regulation or suppression of what is considered obscenity.

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United States Post Office Department

The Post Office Department (1792–1971) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, in the form of a Cabinet department officially from 1872 to 1971.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Vignette (literature)

In a novel, theatrical script, screenplay, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or character and gives a trenchant impression about that character, an idea, setting, and/or object.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch

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