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Two years after Lawrence Ferlinghetti (above right) and Peter D. Martin founded City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, Ferlinghetti made the bookstore almost instantly world-famous when he published Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems in a 1956 75-cent paperback edition. The book’s explosive popularity and the following year’s obscenity trial, “propelled the Beat generation into the … Continue reading "Home of the Beats: How City Lights Booksellers and Publishers Made Radical Poetry…

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