The Beat Goes On

San Francisco Magazine Jessica Zack Stacey Lewis At 100, and with a brand-new book, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a literary legend for the ages. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s name has long been synonymous with San Francisco’s anti-establishment literary voice—so long that it’s been nearly 70 years since the blue-eyed World War II vet, fresh out of grad school at the Sorbonne, arrived in San Francisco from Paris. With his doctorate on the topic of the city as a symbol for modern poetry in hand, Fer...