Abbreviations

The following short titles and the relevant editions used are:

William Burroughs

DF

Dead Fingers Talk (1963) (London: Tandem, 1970)

J

Junky (1953), ed. Oliver Harris (London: Penguin, 2003)

NE

Nova Express (1964) (London: Granada, 1978)

NL

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (1959), ed. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles (London: Harper Perennial, 2005)

Q

Queer, ed. Oliver Harris (1985) (London: Penguin, 2010)

SM

The Soft Machine (1961) (London: Paladin, 1986)

TE

The Ticket That Exploded (1962) (London: Paladin, 1987)

YL

The Yage Letters Redux (1963), ed. Oliver Harris (San Francisco: City Lights, 2006)

Note: I have used the established titles of Naked Lunch and Junky, as opposed to the original titles of The Naked Lunch and Junkie, except in quotations.

Frank O’Hara

CP

The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara, ed. Donald Allen, introduction by John Ashbery (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995 [1971])

SS

Standing Still and Walking in New York, ed. Donald Allen (Bolinas: Grey Fox Press, 1975)

Spelling and grammatical errors within letters, diary entries, and notes have broadly been preserved.