Hip Glossary – Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch: William S. Burroughs’ breakthrough autobiographical/Science Fiction book about drugs, murder, and homosexuality. Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac helped Burroughs piece together the stream of consciousness fragments of prose (Kerouac is credited with the title). Considered a landmark work of fiction, it was banned in Boston as obscene until the courts ruled otherwise creating a legal precedent for free speech. Made into an excellent movie by David Cronenburg.