A review by amiboughter
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs

3.0

A wild ride. Wouldn't expect anything less from a book co-written by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Underneath the drinking, drugs, and frenetic pace of life in wartime New York, there is a true story. Both Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs heard Lucien Carr's confession of murdering David Kammerer (who had been infatuated with Carr since he was twelve years old), helped dispose of evidence, and were arrested as material witnesses. The story was closely followed in the press and allegedly inspired one of the plot lines of James Baldwin's excellent novel Giovanni's Room.