Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100

a City Lights pilgrimage
(source: Jason Henry for NY Times)
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On March 24 Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100. Naturally, it will be a celebration, too, of City Lights, the bookstore he co-founded in 1953, a place so dense with serious world literature of every stripe, and so absent trinkets and elaborate bookmarks and candles and other foofaraw, that it’s a Platonic ideal (NY Times.) And also, naturally, it will be a celebration of San Francisco, this place with endless street movies passing in cars and trams of desire (NY Times.)

And names like Ginsberg and Kerouac will naturally come to mind.

Jack Kerouac Alley
(source: Jason Henry for NY Times)
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco https://t.co/g90vvlJgl3

— Pierre Radulescu (@pierreradulescu) March 16, 2019

(Lawrence Ferlinghetti)