Venice, California
William S. Burroughs and the 50th Anniversary of Naked Lunch
3, 4, 5 December 2009 — Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA
Beyond Baroque celebrates the 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs’ revolutionary text and founding force for beats, punks, electronica, no wave, cyberpunk, and beyond.
Thursday is a wide-ranging riff on Burroughs, Friday a public discussion exploring this influence, and culminating Saturday in a marathon reading of Naked Lunch.
Acclaimed for its innovative construction, satire, and shocking contents, Naked Lunch takes inner space traveler William Lee through Chicago, New York City, Tangier, Morocco and points beyond the beyond, exploding text and unravelling the repressions of American society.
