Naked Lunch, The

noun

1. a novel (1959–66) by William S. Burroughs.

Example Sentences

Like Naked Lunch, The Sheltering Sky was another groundbreaking novel that explores the dark side of the human psyche amid the desolate backdrop of the Sahara.

From BBC

This coincided with a string of work for great directors: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, Allen's Husbands and Wives.

From The Guardian

Mr. Cronenberg tried the opposite tack on “Naked Lunch,” the most genre-defying of the Beat classics, by taking extreme dramatic license.

From New York Times

A reading of Naked Lunch, the grotesque diary of Burroughs' years as an addict, suggests that no such drastic deflation will occur with him.

From Time Magazine Archive