Talk:And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

Need a new source

The newspaper link given re: the publishing announcement is no longer active. Can someone provide a more permanent link? 23skidoo (talk) 18:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

UPI has a story here but it doesn't have the November 2008 publication claim. --JayHenry (talk) 00:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Cover

Having the UK first edition cover is fine for now, but as this is an American release, we should try and obtain a US first edition cover. 23skidoo (talk) 16:10, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Done! GrahamHardy (talk) 21:55, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Addtional source

If anyone has a copy of the Bill Morgan book, please feel free to replace the second-hand reference with the original source. Thanks. (That said, it's probably possible to replace it altogether with the Afterword that explains the situation in detail, although Wiki probably prefers at least one additional source.) 23skidoo (talk) 17:22, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Burroughs and Homosexual Panic Defence?

In order to get Lucien Carr off with a lighter penalty, William S. Burroughs advocated that Carr used the homosexual panic defence strategy before the courts. As the latter is almost universally condemned today by the LGBT movement for its homophobic assumptions about gay male sexuality, which lead to reduced culpability for severe homophobic violence and homicide, has this been the subject of controversy within the international LGBT community as a result of its publication? Calibanu (talk) 23:20, 15 March 2009 (UTC)User Calibanu

origins of title

I saw this documentary where Burroughs confirms himself the title came from the radio broadcast. He makes the statement 23 minutes 40 seconds in. If anyone wants to fix that in the article.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3263084391161565877 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.62.113.38 (talk) 06:44, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

"I Wish I Were You"--original title?

I'm reading WSB's letters (1945-1959) right now, edited by Oliver Harris, and under a letter to Jack Kerouac written March 26, 1952, Harris adds a footnote referring to a novel which the two of them had written together called "I Wish I Were You". I assume this is "... Hippos ...", but I don't know enough to add it to the article myself. Can anyone confirm and append this presumed fact? Cmpashayan (talk) 08:13, 20 October 2024 (UTC)