Flotsam and jetsam

Taking a look at the books that came back from the grave over on 3:AM

It began with a murder straight out of a grisly pulp paperback. The New York Times reported “the discovery of a bound and stabbed body…in the murky waters of the Hudson River.” Several days previous, Lucien Carr had been hanging around the shorefront, drinking with an associate David Kammerer in the early hours. A fight broke out, during which Carr lodged his penknife into Kammerer’s chest. He died almost instantly. Panicking, Carr tied the body up and dragged it out into the water. Then he fled to a friend’s house; a certain William Seward Burroughs.