William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg were leading figures in what became known as the Beat Generation. Burroughs was best known as a writer who wrote experimental novels like "Naked Lunch." Ginsberg was well known as a poet. His poem "Howl" was instrumental in overturning the legal definition of obscenity. Late in their lives these two men spent some time together at the Burroughs residence in Lawrence, Kansas. Ginsberg recorded their conversations. An associate of Ginsberg's, Steven Taylor,