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The soul of the city: San Francisco honors literary hero Lawrence Ferlinghetti

February 23, 2021 by Staff Reporter

The co-founder of the City Lights Bookstore had global stature but remained a neighborhood fixture

By 2pm, a small memorial of flowers and a can of Pabst had begun to accumulate outside the door of City Lights Books, to commemorate the death of its co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

A vigil for Ferlinghetti, one of the last living links to the Beat generation, will take place at 7pm tonight in the adjacent Jack Kerouac Alley. That tiny side street separates the bookstore – a tourist attraction and official city landmark for decades – from the celebrated Beat hangout Vesuvio Cafe.

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Source: theguardian.com

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