Chicago Review, Volume 12, Number 3, Autumn 1958

Burroughs contributes “Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch”, pp. 3-12. At page 3, his name is erroneously noted as "William C. [sic] Burroughs".

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of Burroughs in a letter (December 9, 1957) from Allen Ginsberg to Chicago Review poetry editor Paul Carroll: "Only one unpublished at all in US is Burroughs who is Equal to Jack K. in prose strength.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:

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Contents:

• William C. [sic] Burroughs: "Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch" (prose)
• Brother Antoninus: "A Siege of Silence" (poetry)
• Philip Whalen: "Prose Take 1:VI:57" (prose)
• Joel Oppenheimer: "Mare Nostrum" (poetry)
• John Logan:
• "The House Jack Builds" (prose)
• "Concert Scene" (poetry)
• "Sorrow in the Poet in the Man on the Animal" (review of The Sorrows of Priapus by Edward Dahlberg)
• Paul Carroll: "The Cruelties of the Old Poet" (poetry)
• James Brunot: "An Opening" (prose)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Two Letters from Allen Ginsberg" (letters) [including one on Burroughs]
• David Riesman: "The College Student in an Age of Organization" (essay)
• Hugh Kenner: "Images of James Joyce" (review of My Brother's Keeper by Stanislaus Joyce)
• Martin Green: "Artist Astray" (review of A Bit Off the Map and Other Stories by Angus Wilson)
• Oliver La Farge: "Beautyway" (review of Beautyway: A Havaho [sic] Ceremonial by Leland C. Wyman)
• short book reviews

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