And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Synopsis

The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film kill your darlingsin the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling beats. William s. Burroughs and jack kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian new york during world war ii, full of drugs and art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives.