William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the CenturyWilliam S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs's Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best known of his textual cut up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing