I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly,… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could do it. But at a certain point, you need a strong interpretive conviction and, as you… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Of course, for me Naked Lunch was the big one, but I still believe I was right to pass on that. James Grauerholz and… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying glass could… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history,… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
“I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
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