I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing… — 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 my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some… — Oliver Harris Copy Share
Of course, for me Naked Lunch was the big one, but I still believe I was right to pass on that. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles did an important job with their 2003 "Restored" edition because they knew what they wanted to do, and what they could do. At the time, I simply didn't know. I hadn't even edited Junky… — Oliver Harris Copy Share
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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