Evergreen Review
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The Evergreen Review is a U.S.-based literary magazine. Its publisher is John Oakes and its editor-in-chief is Dale Peck. The Evergreen Review was founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press. I
Issue cover dated Summer 1957, featuring Jackson Pollock
Naked Lunch
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Naked Lunch is a 1959 antinovel by American author William S. Burroughs. The novel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead structured as a series of non-chronological "routines". Many of t
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…of sexuality a political issue. The court battles that Grove Press fought for the legal publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and for the legal distribution of the film I Am Curious: Yellow, spilled onto the pages of Evergreen Review, and in 1964, an issue of Evergreen itself…
1959 Olympia Press edition, with original title
Hell as depicted by Hieronymous Bosch in The Garden of Earthly Delights. During the Boston trial, authors and professors compared Naked Lunch to the religious works of Bosch, Dante Alighieri, and Augustine of Hippo.
Allen Ginsberg (pictured in 1979) inadvertently coined the novel's title. Ginsberg later incorporated the title into a poem, which he read in court during one of the book's obscenity trials.
Critics have compared Naked Lunch to the works of Jonathan Swift, who wrote political satires such as Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal.