

Rosenthal went on to publish more in his newly created literary journal No. But Allen Ginsberg worked to get excerpts published in and in 1958., student editor of Chicago Review, a quarterly journal partially subsidized by the university, promised to publish more excerpts from Naked Lunch, but he was fired from his position in 1958 after Chicago Daily News columnist called the first excerpt obscene.

The novel was initially rejected by, the publisher of Ginsberg's and publisher, who had published English-language novels in France that were controversial for their subjective views of sex and anti-social characters. Excerpts from Naked Lunch were first published in the United States in 1958.
