And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks is a fictionalized retelling of events involving William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. The work, a collaboration between the two authors, fictionalizes a murder that occurred within their social circle. Burroughs, a key figure in the Beat movement, was known for his experimental novels that explored themes of drug addiction and sexuality. Kerouac, also a prominent Beat writer, met Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg at Columbia University. Although written in 1945, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks was not published until 2008.12
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