<div> <div> <div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><i>Naked Lunch</i> was banned, castigated, and recognized as a work of genius on its first publication in 1959, and fifty years later it has lost nothing of its power to astonish, shock, and inspire. A lacerating satire, an exorcism of demons, a grotesque cabinet of horrors, it is the Black Book of the Beat Generation, the forerunner of the psychedelic counterculture, and a progenitor of postmodernism and the digital age. A work of excoriating laughter, linguistic derangement, and transcendent beauty, it remains both influential and inimitable.&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">This is the first book devoted in its entirety to William Burroughs&amp;#8217; masterpiece, bringing together an international array of scholars, artists, musicians, and academics from many fields to explore the origins, writing, reception, and complex meanings of <i>Naked Lunch</i>. Tracking the legendary book from Texas and Mexico to New York, Tangier, and Paris, <i>Naked Lunch@50</i> significantly advances our understanding and appreciation of this most elusive and uncanny of texts.</p> </div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Contributors:</p> <div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Contributors:</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Keith Albarn</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Eric Andersen</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Gail-Nina Anderson</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Théophile Aries</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Jed Birmingham</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Shaun de Waal</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Richard Doyle</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Loren Glass</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Oliver Harris</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Kurt Hemmer</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Allen Hibbard</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Rob Holton</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Andrew Hussey</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Rob Johnson</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Jean-Jacques Lebel</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Ian MacFadyen</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Polina Mackay</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Jonas Mekas</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Barry Miles</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">R. B. Morris</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Timothy S. Murphy</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Jurgen Ploog</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Davis Schneiderman</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Jennie Skerl</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">DJ Spooky</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Philip Taaffe</p> </div> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">&amp;nbsp;</p> </div> </div>