Mania Author:Ronald K.L. Collins, David M. Skover Mania tells the story of a remarkable group of artists who created some of the 20th century's most enduring literature, bringing their countercultural ethos into the mainstream and becoming stars in the process. Including- The Killing of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr in 1944 The car crash that led to Allen Ginsberg s committal to an asylum The... more » publication of Jack Kerouac s On the Road and William S. Burroughs Junky and Naked Lunch The reading and publication of Ginsberg s Howl and the obscenity trial of bookseller/publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti that followed -America would never be the same again.« less