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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, painter and political activist who co-founded the famous City Lights bookshop in San Francisco and became an icon of the city himself, has died aged 101. Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday night. His son Lorenzo said that the cause was interstitial lung disease. Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York in 1919. His father died before he was born and his mother was committed to a mental hospital,...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101 An unapologetic proponent of “poetry as insurgent art,” he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights. Video -0:00 The Last Word: Lawrence Ferlinghetti For more than 50 years, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti kept the bohemian and beat spirit alive at his City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. In 2007, he spoke to The Times about his life and legacy. “The scene shows fewer tumbrils, but more spaced-out citizens in painted cars. And they have strange license plates and engines tha...

Angel’s Inferno by William Hjortsberg (No Exit Press, £9.99) Although not well known by name even in his native America, the work of New York-born William Hjortsberg will be familiar to film fans on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to Alan Parker’s 1987 adaptation of Falling Angel, Hjortsberg’s 1978 novel. Originally serialised in Playboy, of all places, it was re-titled Angel Heart by Parker, who cast Mickey Rourke as damned private investigator Harry Angel and Robert De Niro as Louis Cyphre, a thinly-veiled alias for Old Nick himself. Parker relocated the action from New York to N...

camera icon COURTESY OF GORDON BALL He would later explain his motivation for pioneering the ritual walk: “I felt it was time to take not just another hike on Mt. Tam, the guardian peak for the Bay and for the City — as I had done so many times — but to do it with the intent of circling it, going over it, and doing it with the formality and respect I had seen mountain walks given in Asia.” Starting at Redwood Creek in Muir Woods, the three Beat poets walked clockwise around the mountain, stopping to chant at 10 “stations” — notable spots along the route that ...