Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs Jr. has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting a profound influence on the relationship between art and obscenity, it redefined not just literature but American culture as well. This volume includes final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs, offering a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that remains both relevant and satirically biting.