Revisiting Naked Lunch

A couple of years ago, just after I published Nothing is Right, I wrote a post about Naked Lunch and the way that it helped to shape my outlook as a writer. At the time, I was still wrestling with some of my own perceptions of myself, and while the main focus in the post is a good one, it's a bit less precise than I'd like it to be, and it also uses some language that I've come to accept is problematic.

This year, as I work through Imaginary Friends, I've been re-reading some of the literature...