Caleb Carr Lives in a Very Dark Place

In 1960, the writer and military historian Caleb Carr was five years old and living with his family in a small house on Horatio Street in Greenwich Village. His journalist father Lucien Carr would have loud, wild parties with the writers Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, and the poet Allen Ginsberg, the literary trio at the heart of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. The drunken parties would often end in screaming and fighting, with furniture breaking. “I would sit at the top of the stairs, listening,” said Caleb Carr, from his home in upstate New York, “trying to figure it out. What the hell was going on? It never made any sense.”
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