First published 2008
When Lucien Carr's obsession with older friend David Kammerer boils over, a night of violence pulls Burroughs and Kerouac into the fallout. As the two young writers collaborate on a thinly veiled account, their own lives and art become entangled with the grisly crime.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, crime
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
Period: 20th-century
214 pages · Hardcover · Grove Press
Content warnings: violence