Almost from its inception, the Beat Generation seemed to be doomed to failure. In and around Columbia University, a ragtag group of bohemians coalesced based upon an odd array of mutual interests. Two of them were homosexuals, one bisexual, and all were interested in drugs and subversive literature. William S.
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LAWRENCE Ferlinghetti, the poet and bookstore owner whose publication of Allen Ginsbergâs poem
Howl in 1956 led to a landmark obscenity trial that spotlighted the Beat literary movement, died at the age of 101.
He died on Feb. 22 at his home in San Francisco, according to
The Washington Post, citing his son Lorenzo. The cause was lung disease.
Mr. Ferlinghettiâs City Lights became the nationâs first all-paperback bookstore when it opened in San Franciscoâs North Beach section in 1953. Since then, it has served as a gathering place for writers, artists and bohemians, from Jack Kerouac and the Beats to hippies, punk rockers and iPhone-carrying hipsters.
There may be no two personalities more distant and yet more prominent in their own ways in the 20th century world of free speech than conservative talk radioâs Rush Limbaugh and the owner of San Franciscoâs famed City Lights bookstore, poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
The universe does move in mysterious, and yet connected, ways.
Ferlinghetti, 101, died Feb. 22. Limbaugh, 70, died last week. Each pushed the boundaries of the nationâs social standards in a persistent drive to illuminate, criticize and correct societyâs faults and missteps â and they employed and enjoyed the First Amendmentâs protection of free speech and free press in those efforts.