For while his 1958 book A Coney Island of the Mind has sold over a million copies, Ferlinghetti is not simply a famous poet he is a counterculture icon, known for his association with Beat generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and for City Lights, the bookstore/publishing house he cofounded. Simultaneous with this milestone, Doubleday is publishing his third novel, Little Boy, an autobiographical stream-of-consciousness novel that his publisher would prefer were a memoir. By the time this is published, he’ll be one hundred. Photo courtesy © Allen Ginsberg LLCĪs we conducted these interviews, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was ninety-nine years old. Interviewed by Garrett Caples Issue 228, Spring 2019įerlinghetti at City Lights, San Francisco, March 18, 1985.
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