Carr's Beat crowd (which Ginsberg called "the Libertine Circle") was, for a time, shattered by the killing. Several members sought to write about the events. Kerouac's "The Town and the City" is a fictional retelling, in which Carr is represented by the character "Kenneth Wood." A more literal depiction of events appears in Kerouac's later "Vanity of Duluoz". Soon after the killing, Allen Ginsberg began a novel about the crime, which he called "The Bloodsong", but his English instructor at Columbia, seeking to preclude more negative publicity for Carr or the university, persuaded Ginsberg to abandon it. According to the author Bill Morgan in his book, "The Beat Generation in New York", the Carr incident also inspired Kerouac and Burroughs to collaborate in 1945 on a novel entitled "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks", which was published for the first time in its entirety in November 2008.