Chicago Review, Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 1958

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Burroughs contributes “Excerpt: Naked Lunch”, pp. 25-30. Among the earliest appearances of William S. Burroughs, with an excerpt from the novel that would be published the following year by The Olympia Press, Paris.

Published in Chicago, IL. by Chicago Review in Spring of 1958.

This copy formerly in the collection of Darin Scope (UK).

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Contents:

• Jack Kerouac:
• "The Origins of Joy in Poetry" (essay)
• "The Wheel of the Quivering Meat Conception" (poetry)
• "Old Man Mose" (poetry)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
• "Note on Poetry in San Francisco" (essay)
• "And the Arabs" (poetry)
• Robert Duncan: "Upon Taking Hold (for Charles Olson)" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg:
• "Dawn" (poetry)
• "Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo" (poetry)
• "The Nap" (poetry)
• John Wieners:
• "The Bridge Word (on brown paper)" (poetry)
• "From End Chapters in Autobiography" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: 
• "The Mess" (poetry)
• "7/26/57" (poetry)
• "Less than Vanity" (poetry)
• "The Breech" (poetry)
• Kirby Doyle: "Strange" (poetry)
• Philip Lamantia: "There's a Glow to the Wind" (poetry)
• Philip Whalen: "10:X:57, Forty-Five Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty" (poetry)
• William S. Burroughs: "Excerpt: Naked Lunch" (prose)
• Conner: art
• Gechtoff: art
• Robert Vigneron: "Marcel Proust: Creative Agony" (essay)
• Louis Gallo: "Kishotie Among the Volcanoes" (prose)
• James I. Crump: "A Sherwood in Kiangsu" (review of All Men are Brothers (Shui-hu Chuan) translated by Pearl Buck)
• Aaron Siskind: photographs
• Parker Tyler: "Texts out of Context" (review of Henry James' Parisian Sketches: Letters to the New York Tribune 1875-76)
• Michael Hamburger: "Of Truth Instead of Beauty" (review of Erich Heller's The Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern Literature and Thought)
• Marvin Lowenthal: "A Candle to Montaigne" (review of The Complete Works of Montaigne: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters, translated by Donald M. Frame)

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