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The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. Most commonly, cut-ups are used to offer a non-linear alternative to traditional reading and writing.
The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by American writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.
This list contains novels, short stories, poems and essays that were, at least partially, created using the cut-up or fold-in technique. Please feel free to expand it.
The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by American writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.
This list contains novels, short stories, poems and essays that were, at least partially, created using the cut-up or fold-in technique. Please feel free to expand it.
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The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
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4.08 avg rating — 946 ratings
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The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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3.43 avg rating — 6,995 ratings
score: 397,
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The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
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3.61 avg rating — 2,707 ratings
score: 294,
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The Third Mind
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4.19 avg rating — 334 ratings
score: 287,
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Woman's World
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3.99 avg rating — 594 ratings
score: 277,
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CUT UP! An Anthology Inspired by the Cut-Up Method of William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin
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A.D. Hitchin (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 273,
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3 people voted
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Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
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3.67 avg rating — 3,322 ratings
score: 196,
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Huckleberry Milton
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Bradley J. Milton (Goodreads Author)
2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Q
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Bill Lavender (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 100,
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Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol
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Harry Whitewolf (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 100,
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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
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4.02 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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Maintenant 9: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art
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Peter Carlaftes (Editor)
4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 100,
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Nostradamus, Bibliomancer: The Man, The Myth, The Truth
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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MAINTENANT 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art
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Peter Carlaftes (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 99,
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The Head of Vitus Bering: A Portrait in Prose
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4.11 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 98,
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Mangled Hands
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score: 97,
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Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book
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3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 96,
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The Burroughs File
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3.85 avg rating — 403 ratings
score: 96,
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Dusty Pink
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3.91 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 96,
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Cutting Up Two Burroughs
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 95,
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The Braille Film
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score: 95,
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Celebrations
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 94,
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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4.01 avg rating — 16,058 ratings
score: 93,
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Shift Linguals: Cut-Up Narratives from William S Burroughs to the Present (Postmodern Studies, 46)
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 93,
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Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America
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3.67 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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"D" Train
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 92,
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Messages to Central Control
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 91,
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Fuck Off S.R.
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 91,
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PURE
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score: 90,
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The Holy Hermaphrodite
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Injun
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Jordan Abel (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 240 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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The Empath
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 88,
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The Razor Graveyard
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William Bevill (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 88,
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Beat Hotel
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3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Blood Electric
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3.13 avg rating — 90 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an
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3.80 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 86,
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1 person voted
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Gimmick:
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4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Booby, Mama!: Surreal Cut-Up Spoken Word, 1977
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Hedwig Gorski (Goodreads Author)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 85,
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Nonexistence
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3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 84,
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HUMAN_WORMS
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 83,
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HEADCODE
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 82,
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[Debug.]: Primary Techno Noir
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3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Smart-d
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 80,
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Hypergenome 666
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 79,
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Genedub
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 78,
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Hack_
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 77,
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99: The New Meaning
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3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 75,
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