![]() When it first came out in France in 1959, ''Naked Lunch'' wasn't even reviewed. Burroughs' American publisher, Grove Press, this was good news. Of American society, was ruled obscene in Massachusetts.įor Mr. Burroughs opened the doors to hallucinatory visions Overcame an obscenity prosecution for ''Howl,'' which celebrated homosexuality and eroticism. Not that censors didn't see what was coming. ![]() The beats' defiance of authority and their experimentation with drugs and sex helped set a generation on course for the counterculture of the 60's. Burroughs, who gave the world, ready or not, ''Naked Lunch.'' ![]() ![]() Who gave Jack Kerouac the word ''beat,'' Allen Ginsberg, who gave poetry ''Howl'' and, on Aug. He last year has been pretty much the end of the road for the Beat Generation, with the deaths of Herbert Huncke, the hustler Naked Lunches and Reality Sandwiches: How the Beats Beat the First Amendment By GEORGE JUDSON Naked Lunches and Reality Sandwiches: How the Beats Beat the First Amendment ![]()
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