"Naked Lunch": the First Fifty Years

Naked Lunch: Published Book > Anniversary editions

William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997
Naked Lunch, Twenty-fifth anniversary edition

New York: Grove Press, 1984

 

Other editions held by Columbia include this limited edition of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Naked Lunch; the Columbia copy is one of 500 copies signed by Burroughs.  The text of this edition follows previous Grove Press editions.

William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997
Naked Lunch, Twenty-fifth anniversary edition

New York: Grove Press, 1984

 

Other editions held by Columbia include this limited edition of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Naked Lunch; the Columbia copy is one of 500 copies signed by Burroughs.  The text of this edition follows previous Grove Press editions.

William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997
Interzone

New York: Viking, 1989

 

Long thought lost, the “Interzone” manuscript was rediscovered in 1984 as part of the Allen Ginsberg Papers held by Columbia University.  The edition makes available to a broad audience various early writings that did not necessarily make it into the Olympia or Grove Press editions.  For example, “The Word” is published here in its entirety.  Columbia’s copy is signed and dated by Burroughs and inscribed by the edition’s editor James Grauerholz, longtime Burroughs literary assistant and executor.

William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997
Naked Lunch, the Restored Text

New York: Grove Press, 2003

 

In 1998 Burroughs’s longtime secretary and literary executor James Grauerholz discovered the original typescript used for the 1959 Olympia Press edition in the Ohio State University Special Collections Library.  The discovery lead Grauerholz and Burroughs scholar Barry Miles to re-edit and restore the work to a definitive edition.  Their work compared the early printed editions, the “Interzone” manuscript, and other Naked Lunch manuscripts in the Robert H. Jackson collection in the Special Collections Library at Arizona State University, the Ohio State manuscripts, as well as materials in private collections.

William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997
Naked Lunch 50th Anniversary edition

New York: Grove Press, 2009

 

Forthcoming from Grove Press on November 1, 2009.

 

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