Di Prima and Ferlinghetti look back on the Beat city
JUN 30 2017
The Washington Post films Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Herbert Gold recalling San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s, when the city was the setting of the Beat literary movement, and reflecting on how it has changed since. Three writers who were present, speaking about the neighbourhood the scene made and then lost.
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