Manifestations, Multiple Versions, and Showstoppers: Collecting the Various Guises of Naked Lunch A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE

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1 Manifestations, Multiple Versions, and Showstoppers: Collecting the Various Guises of Naked Lunch A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE Brian E. C. Schottlaender The Audrey Geisel University Librarian UC San Diego Libraries 9 October 2009

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4 The bibliography of William S. Burroughs is as challenging as the man was himself. He wrote voluminously and kaleidoscopically. He rearranged, recycled, and reiterated obsessively. He produced across five decades and four continents. He was a novelist, a poet, an essayist, and a correspondent at home in all media. He never met a little magazine or an interviewer he wouldn t share with.

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7 AUSTIN, TEXAS Armadillo World Headquarters Shiva s Headband Jim Franklin

8 In the Beginning... Was the Wolf Brother

9 BOOKS

10 The Naked Lunch Paris: Olympia Press, 1959 (The Traveller s Companion Series, No. 76) Softbound in dustjacket (no hardbound issued) 1 ST EDITION 1 ST PRINTING 2 ISSUES

11 HOW ARE THEY THE SAME?

12 HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT?

13 The Naked Lunch Paris: Olympia Press, 1959 (The Traveller s Companion Series, No. 76) Softbound (no hardbound issued) 1 ST EDITION 2 ND PRINTING 2 nd printing [not to be confused with the second issue of the first printing] was issued without dustjacket or decorative border around title page, and with price of NF 18 printed on back cover.

14 Naked Lunch New York: Grove Press, [1962], 1959 Hardbound in dustjacket (no softbound issued) 1 ST EDITION Includes: Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness (originally published in Evergreen Review) Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs (originally published in The British Journal of Addiction)

15 1 st Printing No zip code on rear panel of dustjacket No Roman numerals on rear panel of dustjacket, near lower spine

16 Naked Lunch New York: Grove Press, 1966, 1959 (An Evergreen Black Cat Book, BC-115) Softbound (no hardbound issued) 1 ST EVERGREEN BLACK CAT ED. Includes: Naked Lunch on Trial: The Massachusetts Supreme Court Decision and Excerpts from the Boston Trial (an expansion of The Boston Trial of Naked Lunch, originally published in Evergreen Review) Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs

17 Naked Lunch New York: Grove Press, 1984, Hardbound in dustjacket. 25TH ANNIVERSARY ED. With an Introduction by Jennie Skerl. Includes 500 numbered, signed copies issued without dustjacket in slipcase.

18 25 TH ANNIVERSARY LTD. ED.

19 Naked Lunch: The Restored Text New York: Grove Press, [2003?], Hardbound in dustjacket, and softbound. 1 ST EDITION Edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles. Includes: Original Introductions and Additions by the Author Burroughs Texts Annexed by the Editors

20 Dead Fingers Talk London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, Hardbound in dustjacket (no softbound issued). Dead Fingers Talk is not a book of selections but a new novel constructed out of these three earlier books [The Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and The Ticket That Exploded] together with some new material. Dustjacket reproduces an Ian Sommerville photo-collage of Burroughs Olympia Press editions.

21 Cobble Stone Gardens Cherry Valley, N.Y.: Cherry Valley Editions, Hardbound (issued without dustjacket), and softbound. A mixture of autobiographical fiction about the author s youth and family in St. Louis and material drawn from Naked Lunch and The Wild Boys.

22 Doctor Benway: A [Variant] Passage from The Naked Lunch With a new introduction by Burroughs. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Bradford Morrow, Hardbound in dustjacket, and softbound.... published on the 20th anniversary of the original appearance of The Naked Lunch... the first publication of the earliest known version of the Doctor Benway chapter from The Naked Lunch [Publisher s prospectus]

23 PERIODICALS

24 The Black Mountain Review, [No.] 7 (Autumn 1957) From Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage Published under the pseudonym William Lee Chicago Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1958) Excerpt: Naked Lunch

25 Chicago Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn 1958) Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch Yugen, [No.] 3 (1958) Have You Seen Pantapon [sic] Rose? Excerpt from Naked Lunch

26 Big Table, No. 1 (Spring 1959) Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch Episodes 2 and 5 reprinted from Chicago Review, Spring 1958 Jabberwock, [No. 1] (1959) And Start West Excerpt from Naked Lunch

27 New Departures, No. 1 (Summer 1959) The Exterminator Does a Good Job Coke Bugs Excerpts from Naked Lunch Semina, No. 4 (1959) Excerpt from [Have You Seen] Pantapon [sic] Rose[?] Excerpt from Naked Lunch

28 Kulchur, [No. 1] (Spring 1960) The Conspiracy a section from the original manuscript of Naked Lunch. It was not available and does not appear in the otherwise complete edition of Naked Lunch, published by Olympia Press, Paris, Evergreen Review, Vol. 5, No. 16 (January February 1961) From Naked Lunch

29 Swank, Vol. 8, No. 3 (July 1961) The Word.... first draft of a section of... [Naked Lunch]... Evergreen Review, Vol. 6, No. 22 (January February 1962) Also includes The Cannibal Feast: [Review of] Naked Lunch by William Burroughs by E. S. Seldon. Introduction to Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Novia [sic; i.e., Nova] Express

30 Avec, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1988) An Excerpt from Word, the Lost Chapter of Naked Lunch New Letters, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Fall 1988) From WORD Excerpted from Interzone. Includes On Interzone by William S. Burroughs by James Grauerholz., according to which Word is the direct precursor of Naked Lunch, [although] very little of this text was used in that novel

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32 Naked Lunch Read by William S. Burroughs; produced by Hal Wilner and James Grauerholz; abridged by Nelson Lyon. Original Score by Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, and Eyvind Kang. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers Records, Two cassette tapes in cardboard box Three compact discs

33 Naked Lunch Produced by Jeremy Thomas. Written and directed by David Cronenberg. (The Criterion Collection; 220) [N.p.]: The Criterion Collection, Two digital video discs with accompanying booklet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.

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