Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved chompchompTOFU’s request to change the contributors of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Monday, August 24 2009.

• Edited a contributor: James GrauerholzWilliam S. Burroughs: (Primary NoneAuthor)

chompchompTOFU edited the contributors of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Monday, August 24 2009.

• Edited a contributor: James GrauerholzWilliam S. Burroughs: (Primary NoneAuthor)

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Wednesday, August 12 2009.

• Removed a contributor: William Burroughs: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson, on the relationship of art and obscenity, and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. Reedited by Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs's longtime editor James Grauerholz, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs's notes on the text, several essays he wrote over the years about the book, and an appendix of 20 percent all-new material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript, which predates the first published version. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: William Burroughs: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: James Grauerholz: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Friday, July 17 2009.

• I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train...