Chicago Review, Volume 12, Number 3, Autumn 1958

Burroughs contributes “Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch”, pp. 3-12.

There is additionally a brief review of Burroughs' Junkie on page 86, as written under the pseudonym William Lee.

Also includes a mention of Burroughs in a letter (December 9, 1957) from Allen Ginsberg to Chicago Review poetry editor Paul Carroll: "Only one unpublished at all in US is Burroughs who is Equal to Jack K. in prose strength. I asked him to send me some mss. and if they've arrived by tomorrow at American Express I'll include them with this letter. You would do a great service if you can find a place to introduce Burroughs. Grove is reading him now but things go slow & I wish he were added to the Pantheon. That's William S. Burroughs–see dedication in my book [Howl & Other Poems] if you have it. He's in Tangiers. Most his work too raw but I asked him to send something palpably printable by US censor standards. Rexroth discribes [sic] him in New Directions 16 article." A second letter mentions the Burroughs contribution included in this issue.

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

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C5
• Shoaf III.3
• Schottlaender v4.C5
• Raven 19580900CRE.12.3, b1

Contents:

• Prose:
• William S. Burroughs:
• Philip Whalen: Prose Take 1:VI:57
• John Logan: The House Jack Builds
• James Brunot: An Opening
• Poetry:
• Brother Antonius, O.P.: A Siege of Silence
• Joel Oppenheimer: Mare Nostrum
• John Logan: Concert Scene
• Paul Carroll: The Cruelties of the Old Poet
• Essays:
• David Riesman: The College Student in an Age of Organization
• Reviews:
• John Logan: Sorrow in the Poet in the Man in the Animal (on The Sorrows of Priapus by Edward Dahlberg)
• Hugh Kenner: Images of James Joyce (on My Brother's Keeper by Stanislaus Joyce)
• Martin Green: Artist Astray (on A Bit Off the Map and Other Stories by Angus Wilson)
• Oliver La Farge: Beautyway (on Beautyway: A Navaho Ceremonial, ed. by Leland C. Wyman)
• Brief reviews of:
• Norman Marlow's A. E. Housman: Scholar and Poet
• William Lee's (William S. Burroughs') Junkie
• W. G. C. Guthrie's In the Beginning: Some Greek Views on the Origins of Life and the Early State of Man
• Letters:
• From Allen Ginsberg to Paul Carroll

Publishing Information:

• Editor: Irving Rosenthal
• Manager: Richard G. Sheldon
• Assistant Editor: Doris Nieder
• Art Editor: Eila Kokkinen
• Essay Editor: Hyung Woong Pak
• Poetry Editor: Paul Carroll
• Project Editors: Barbara Pitschel, Charles Horowitz
• Editorial Assistants: Charles Lanman, Edward Leibstone, Leonard Cunix, Harvey Plotnik, Dorothy Perlmuter, Leon Albritton, Roland Pitschel
• Cover Illustration: Robert Natkin
• Printed by the University of Chicago Printing Department