Ali's Smile Naked Scientology Author:William S. Burroughs Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology is the title of a short collection of essays and fiction by William S. Burroughs which was first published in 1978. The short story "Ali's Smile" had previously been published on its own in 1971 and later in the collection, Exterminator!. The collected edition was published by Expanded Media Editions of West Germany... more ».
The contents are a collection of different texts that all have one subject in common: they all deal one way or the other with Scientology (or Dianetics), the body of teachings founded by L. Ron Hubbard. The original edition of the Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology collection was bilingual, with the text printed in both English and German - the latter in translation by editor Carl Weissner.« less