Flotsam and jetsam
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.
Darran Anderson takes a look at the books that came back from the grave.
3:AM in conversation
As part of the London Lit Plus festival, 3:AM are hosting an evening with novelist and film-maker Chris Petit, tomorrow at the infamous Wheatsheaf Pub. Chris Petit is the director of cult British road movie Radio On, recently re-released on DVD by the BFI, and author of the essential London noir Robinson and the thrillers […]