In Manhattan 1944, a Columbia student called Lucien Carr stabbed 32 year old David Kammerer and drowned the body. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac were friends of Carr’s and both were arrested after the murder as Carr had confessed to them and neither had gone to the police (Kerouac even helped dispose of the murder weapon!).
A young Pakistani called Changez tells an unnamed American his life story as they leisurely sit at a restaurant in Lahore. How he once lived the American Dream - until 9/11 changed everything…
Antony Beevor published what may be the definitive book on the Battle of Stalingrad (modern-day Volgograd) in 1998 - Christmas at Stalingrad is a short extract from that book, focusing on the bitter winter of 1942-43 when the fate of Hitler’s doomed Sixth Army was sealed.
You know how the latest footage of next year’s flopbuster Captain America 4: We Keep Changing the Title But It Definitely Has “World” In It got smeared like you-know-what across our screens and we got treated to that amazing footage of Harry Ford as Red Hulk, and we collectively didn’t go “gross” and immediately try to forget we saw it, but pre-ordered our tickets (and probably popcorn buckets of Red Hulk’s… hmm, head)? Glad we’re on the same page.
It’s an eventful time in MS Harkness’ life: she’s graduating art school, she’s making comics, she’s having an affair with an MMA fighter, she’s doing a lil sex work on the side to fund it all, she’s studying to become a personal trainer, and her incarcerated molesting father is trying to make “amends”. Tense indeed.
