I'd purchased it on a family outing to Waldenbooks, a store that, it's interesting to note, mostly traffics in kitten calendars and "Cathy" bookmarks. I first encountered "Naked Lunch" in eighth grade, in the backseat of my parents' car - a clear-cut case of child abuse by neglect. The book completely knocked me out, the epitome of stoned humor and bohemian subversion." " Barry Miles, the author of a hilariously credulous Burroughs biography (" El Hombre Invisible") and co-editor of this commemorative volume, on a Columbia University panel: "I was living in this hippie commune apartment in London. Lewis Jones, in the London Spectator: "When I first read "Naked Lunch," as a teenager sleeping rough in a Greek olive grove. Burroughs's " Naked Lunch," which celebrated its 50th birthday this past November (dated from its 1959 publication in Paris by Maurice Girodias' infamous Olympia Press), without indulging in a dreamily solipsistic nostalgia trip.
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