Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Barney Rosset: Their Struggles Against Censorship Recalled
Edward de Grazia's fall-1998 interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Mailer, and Barney Rosset recalling the Boston obscenity trial of William Burroughs's Naked Lunch.
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Edward de Grazia’s interviews (Grazian Archive, fall 1998, 11 pp.) with Allen Ginsberg, Mailer, and the publisher Barney Rosset, recalling the Boston obscenity trial of William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch at which Mailer testified.
A full transcription, held in the working archive pending rights clearance, is at full text.
Related pages
- Allen Ginsberg
- 1998
- Some Children of the Goddess: Further Evaluations of the Talent in the Room (63.8) | Defenders of "Naked Lunch" Compare Burroughs to Authors of Classics (65.1) | The Boston Trial of Naked Lunch (65.13) | Conference remarks and court testimony on Burroughs's *Naked Lunch* (81.21) | "Comments" (in Girls Lean Back Everywhere) (92.12)