A landmark issue that brought the first of many attempts to censor Burroughs' opus.
Very good plus.
Price: $125.00
"The Mark inside was coming up on him and that's a rumble nobody can cool..."
After his manuscripts were forwarded along by Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs published excerpts from his work-in-progress, NAKED LUNCH, in the student-run CHICAGO REVIEW. This second installment occasioned one particularly incensed critic to the magazine "Filthy Writing on the Midway," causing the University of Chicago to halt the release of a planned follow-up. The staff left, with editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll forming BIG TABLE, where more LUNCH appeared, in turn occasioning a lawsuit from the Post Office. A key moment in the "alternative lowlife data [...] filtering insidiously through the ivy," as Thomas Pynchon would later recall, and a dispatch from the "other world" that cracked open literature and life at the dawn of the 1960s.
Read more: Thomas Pynchon, SLOW LEARNER.
First edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958. 9'' x 6''. Original blue-green pictorial wrappers. 88, [6]. Light toning overall. Bit rubbed at extremities. Overall sound.
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