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Article: Beat poet's rage now fuels healthy tourist trade They come from far and wide to his City Lights Bookstore
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 13, 2002
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SAN FRANCISCO--America's gauzy popular culture has the power to
envelop even its perfervid critics in a tolerant, domesticating
embrace. If they live long enough, these critics run the risk of
winding up full not only of years, but of honors. They can, like
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 83, become tourist attractions.
These tourists, he notes, are intellectually upscale. They come in
a small but steady trickle, from across the country and around the
world, to his City Lights Bookstore, next door to a street named
after the most famous of the many writers who have hung out there--
Jack Kerouac. The store, which is a short walk from the street--
actually, an alleyway, which seems right--named Via ...