Norman Mailer: Works and Days

The Boston Trial of Naked Lunch

Court testimony of Mailer and Allen Ginsberg opposing the suppression of William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, published in Evergreen Review.

The court testimony of Mailer and Allen Ginsberg opposing the suppression of William Burroughs‘s Naked Lunch, published in Evergreen Review. See the contemporaneous news report “Defenders of Naked Lunch” (65.1).

Rpt: as “Excerpts from the Boston Trial of Naked Lunch” in Naked Lunch (New York: Grove Press, 1966, softcover edition).

First published: 1965-06
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 65.13
Cite as: /works/1965-06-boston-trial-of-naked-lunch
Last updated: 2026-05-30