A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE Brian E. C. … · A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE Brian E. C. Schottlaender The Audrey Geisel University Librarian . ... Original Score by Bill Frisell,

Manifestations, Multiple Versions, and Showstoppers: Collecting the Various Guises of Naked Lunch

A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE

Brian E. C. SchottlaenderThe Audrey Geisel University Librarian

UC San Diego Libraries9 October 2009

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.

1973 . . .

Armadillo World Headquarters

Shiva’s Headband

Jim Franklin

AUSTIN, TEXAS

In the Beginning . . . Was the Wolf Brother

BOOKS

The Naked Lunch

Paris: Olympia Press, 1959

(The Traveller’s

Companion

Series, No. 76)

Softbound in dustjacket

(no hardbound issued)

1ST

EDITION

1ST

PRINTING 2 ISSUES

HOW ARE THEY THE SAME?

HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT?

The Naked LunchParis: Olympia Press, 1959

(The Traveller’s

Companion

Series, No. 76)

Softbound

(no hardbound issued)

1ST

EDITION

2ND

PRINTING

2nd

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.

Naked Lunch

New York: Grove Press, [1962], ©1959

Hardbound in dustjacket(no softbound issued)

1ST

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)

1st

Printing

•No zip code on rear panel of dustjacket

•No Roman numerals on rear panel of dustjacket,

near lower spine

Naked LunchNew York: Grove Press,

1966, ©1959(An Evergreen Black Cat Book, BC-115)

Softbound (no hardbound issued)

1ST

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: TestimonyConcerning a Sickness”

• “Letter from a Master Addictto Dangerous Drugs”

Naked Lunch

New York: Grove Press, 1984, ©1959.

Hardbound in dustjacket.

25TH ANNIVERSARY ED.

With an Introductionby Jennie Skerl.

Includes 500 numbered,signed copies issued without

dustjacket

in slipcase.

25TH

ANNIVERSARY LTD. ED.

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

New York: Grove Press,

[2003?], ©2001.

Hardbound in dustjacket,

and softbound.

1ST

EDITION

Edited by

James Grauerholz

and Barry Miles.

Includes:•“Original Introductions and

Additions by the Author”•“Burroughs Texts Annexed

by the Editors”

Dead Fingers Talk

London: John Calder

in association with

Olympia Press, 1963.

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.

Cobble Stone Gardens

Cherry Valley, N.Y.:

Cherry Valley Editions, 1976.

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.

Doctor Benway: A [Variant] Passage

from The Naked LunchWith a new introduction by

Burroughs.

Santa Barbara, Calif.:

Bradford Morrow, 1979.

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]

PERIODICALS

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”

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

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

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

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, 1959.”

Evergreen Review, Vol. 5, No. 16 (January−February

1961)

“From Naked Lunch”

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”

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 …”

MEDIA

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, ©1995.

Two cassette tapes in cardboard box Three compact discs

Naked Lunch

Produced by Jeremy Thomas.

Written and directed by

David Cronenberg.

(The Criterion Collection; 220) [N.p.]: The Criterion

Collection, 2003.

Two digital video discs with accompanying booklet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.