Oliver Harris


The background picture is of Ava Gardner posing for a publicity shot while shooting my favourite film, The Killers.

Curriculum vitae | list of publications


Main Publications (links to Amazon)

naked lunch

Naked Lunch@50: Anniversary Essays

More information on nakedlunch.org

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Everything Lost: the Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2008)

Interview | Review 1 | Review 2

The Yage Letters Redux (2006)

Review 1 | Review 2 | Review 3

Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk" 50th Anniversary Edition (2003)

Reviews

William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination (2003)

Review

The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993)

 

“Cutting Up the Corpse,” in The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game (2009) edited by Davis Schneiderman et al.

"'Virus X': Kerouac's Visions of Burroughs," in Reconstructing the Beats (2004) edited by Jennie Skerl
"Cut-Up Closure: The Return to Narrative," in William S. Burroughs at the Front: Critical Reception, 1959-1989 (1991) edited by Jennie Skerl and Robin Lydenberg
"Cutting up Politics" in Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (2004) edited by Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh

Critical Articles on-line

old War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters (from twentieth Century Literature 46 (Summer 2000), 171-192)

Beating the Academy (from College Literature 27.1 (Winter 2000), 213-231).

“’Can You See A Virus?’ The Queer Cold War of William Burroughs” (from Journal of American Studies 33.2 (1999), 243-266).

"Burroughs is a poet too, really": the poetics of Minutes to Go from The Edinburgh Review 114 (2005), 24-36.

"Not Burroughs' Final Fix: Materializing : The Yage Letters" from Postmodern Culture 16.3 (January 2006).


Conference Papers on-line

From Dr. Mabuse to Doc Benway: the Myths and Manuscripts of Naked LunchFrom Dr. Mabuse to Doc Benway: the Myths and Manuscripts of Naked Lunch (9/10/2009)

The Holy Shit of Burroughs and Kerouac (13/12/2008)

Cutting Up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text (25/5/2007)