Retracing Jack Kerouac

Despite Jack Kerouac perhaps not playing that big of a role in the history of the City Lights Bookstore and City Lights Publishing (as far as I know they only published one or two poetry collections by Kerouac) I found it fitting to upload this post. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a longtime friend of Kerouac, most famously letting Kerouac use his cabin at Bixby Canyon, which directly lead to Kerouac writing one of his best (and most honest, in a painful way) books in my opinion Big Sur. Which reminds me that I have yet to see the film adaptation of Big Sur that was released a few months ago – anybody seen that and what did you think?

Also, hats off to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who is apparently alive and well at 94!