Jan Herman wrote on his blog today about Naked Lunch@50 which is something that I hadn’t yet heard of but seems very wonderful. I read Naked Lunch a few summers ago and it was something that I could only accurately describe as an experience. I wouldn’t suggest it to all readers — has a rocky history of bannings and even a supreme court case (neither of which I know much about, but can understand). I just finished reading The Nova Express which I also enjoyed and it made me want to go back and read the books that came in between NL and it.
Anyway, it’s sort of neat that the publishing of the book “turns fifty” this year, it was written over so many years it is probably impossible to say when Burroughs began writing it. Naked Lunch@50 is a book of essays coming out all on Burroughs’ text which sounds quite interesting.
