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Group- Nicole Schuler, Phoebe Scholl, Jimmy Braun, Stefan Schmidt, Christian Bermudez Book- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Pages- 320 Genre- Novel //Naked Lunch// by William S. Burroughs is a novel that is constructed of loosely-connected vignettes. The book is about a man named William Lee who is Burroughs' alter ego in the book. He writes stories about "Black Meat," which is supposed to be morphine. This book has a lot of twist and turns and a lot of code named drugs addictions. It's a crazy path of meeting new people, trying new drugs, and getting in trouble.

This book has gone through some censorship battles because there is so much controversy about drug addiction surrounding it. //Naked Lunch// is considered Burroughs' seminal work and one of the landmark publications in the history of American literature. The book was banned in Boston in 1962 due to obscenity, but the decision was reversed in 1966.

A lot of film makers were trying to figure out how to make Naked Lunch into a movie. Mick Jagger was considered to be used to turn it into a musical in the 1960s. It was considered unfilmable until 1991 when a canadian director attempted to do it.

"..but I feel that Burroughs gets to the root of the Beatniks' most defining element: Drug use/abuse. His style is unrelenting. His prose harsh and ragged, not unlike himslef for some 15 odd years of his life in which he lived as a junky." ( __http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Lunch-William-S-Burroughs/dp/0802119263/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297951925&sr=1-1__ )

Naked Lunch Meeting 1 March 4th

Naked Lunch Meeting 2 March 18th

Naked Lunch Meeting 3 April 1st