![]() He married his girlfriend so she would pay his bail. Finally Carr confessed, and Kerouac went to prison. None of them said anything to the police. Carr told his friends William Burroughs and a 22-year-old Jack Kerouac about what had happened. ![]() Their friend Lucien Carr had murdered their other friend David Kammerer for drunkenly coming on to him one night and dumped the body in the Hudson River. Ginsberg and Kerouac had known each other for just a few months. ![]() It begins with Kerouac in jail in 1944, on an accessory to murder charge. A sense of foreboding pervades the 25-year correspondence. ![]() Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters chronicles not only the rise of a still controversial literary movement but also everything left in its wake: the anxieties, pretensions and intimacies of these two icons. ![]()
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