![]() The bookstore isn’t only one of the best known in North America-in 2001 it was officially declared a landmark-it’s also one of the most beloved. As many of us have been wringing our hands over what might become of the soul of the city, or the role of the writer in society, we could always say, There’s City Lights!, a sentinel in North Beach, one of the few neighborhoods in the city that still feels as it once did. I don’t like to be out of control.”īut for me, and a segment of San Franciscans and aspiring bohemians worldwide, Ferlinghetti seemed immortal we found comfort in this. I smoked a little dope, and I did a little LSD, but that was it. When The New York Times, in a 2005 interview, asked him why, he answered, “Kerouac drank himself to death, and Burroughs, when he was young, thought the healthiest person was one who had enough money to stay on heroin all his life. ![]() Indeed, Ferlinghetti outlived all the younger Beat writers he once published, including Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Greg Corso. When Lawrence Ferlinghetti died this week at age 101, nearly one month shy of his 102nd birthday, many of my friends, even writer friends, expressed surprise on social media. ![]()
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