Oliver Harris

Oliver C. G. Harris is a British academic and Professor of American Literature at Keele University. He is the author and editor of seventeen books, including a dozen editions of works by William S. Burroughs: ''Letters, 1945–1959'' (1993), ''Junky: the definitive text of Junk'' (2003), ''The Yage Letters Redux'' (2006), ''Queer'' (2010), The Cut-Up Trilogy, ''The Soft Machine'', ''Nova Express'', and ''The Ticket That Exploded'' (2014), ''Blade Runner: A Movie'' (2019), ''Minutes to Go Redux'' (2020), ''The Exterminator Redux'' (2020), ''BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS'' (2020) and ''Dead Fingers Talk'' (2020). In 2022, he published two short books of essays, ''A Burroughs Triptych'' and ''Making Naked Lunch'' and in 2023 a collaborative hybrid of criticism and memoir, ''Two Assassins: William Burroughs/Hassan Sabbah.'' He is President of the European Beat Studies Network. He served as a consultant to Luca Guadagnino for his 2024 film ''Queer'', based on the Burroughs novel. Provided by Wikipedia