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The book is the most famous that Burroughs wrote. It is a novel consisting of several short novels all written in a style called cut-up technique, which allows the reader to 'cut into' the text at any point and also gives the psychedelic and hallucinatory sense to the story that Burroughs intended. The stories are about his fantasy during his time in Tangier, filled with drugs (mostly heroin), homosexuality and taboo fantasies about peculiar creatures, personalities and Burroughsian mechanisms. It is a perspective so closely observing our own environment that it seems like mere fantasy, when in fact it has much more resemblance with ordinary life than a glance lets the reader understand.
The book was forbidden from being published in some parts of the world for approximately ten years, presumably due to the intensity of some of the material, though it found a quick release in France where Olympia Press published it soon after completion. The first American publisher to take a chance with the novel was Grove Press , which added supplementary material regarding the censorship battle over the book as well as an article written by Burroughs on the topic of drug addiction.
Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in room #9 of the Hotel el Muniria in Tangier. Photos of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other beat generation poets hang on the walls of the adjoining bar, the Tangerinn.
In 2002, a "restored text" edition of Naked Lunch was published, with some new and previously suppressed material added.
Some early European editions of the book are entitled The Naked Lunch but the article was dropped for the American edition.
The music group Steely Dan takes its name from a sex toy mentioned in Naked Lunch.
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