Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Michael J. Ybarra dies at 45; chronicler of extreme sports

2012-07-06 00:00:00

Michael J. Ybarra, a former Times reporter who had recently chronicled his extreme-sports adventures for the Wall Street Journal, was killed in a mountain-climbing fall over the weekend on the edge of Yosemite National Park. He was 45. A veteran...

George Whitman dies at 98; founder of legendary Paris bookshop

2011-12-15 00:00:00

George Whitman, the legendary founder of the Paris bookshop and literary institution Shakespeare & Co., died Wednesday. He was 98. The Left Bank bookshop was closed Wednesday, and a note on the door said Whitman had suffered a stroke a few months...

Shakespeare & Co. founder George Whitman, 98, dies

2011-12-15 16:34:46

Planning your trip to Litquake in San Francisco

2011-09-14 09:06:00

WHERE TO STAY IN SAN FRANCISCO Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter St.; (888) 717-3564, thehotelrex.com. This literary-themed boutique hotel near Union Square is offering Litquake attendees a 15% discount (book online and use discount code LQSF). Its Library Bar is...

Happy banned books week!

2011-09-24 16:35:01

Retracing Jack Kerouac's rocky road

2010-01-03 00:00:00

There are those who return to Jack Kerouac just to get lost in the ride. Not across lonesome America but in the serpentine locomotion of his prose. It's the music of the page: long blasts of blue-streak narrative that don't yield to periods, semicolons,...

Critic's Notebook: Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' book app is a road trip and a map to the future

2011-06-22 12:33:00

There's a certain poetic justice in the fact that "On the Road" is one of Apple's top-grossing book apps. Released on Saturday, the iPad app for Jack Kerouac's landmark novel — featuring a variety of enriched content, including commentary, maps,...

Jack Kerouac on the app road

2011-06-22 16:35:05

James Franco brings 'Howl' to life, aurally

2010-09-24 16:34:40

Happy 92nd birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti!

2011-03-24 21:34:58

Writers support library-funding Measure L as police union opposes

2011-02-10 16:36:23

Book reviews: Discoveries

2010-11-07 00:00:00

The Poetry Lesson Andrei Codrescu Princeton University Press: 128 pp., $19.95 This book, with its punishing, dread-inspiring title and pleading skeleton on the cover, is actually one of the funniest, most irreverent you'll read this year. Part memoir,...

The real culture of America [is] the writers, teachers, says Lawrence Ferlinghetti

2006-10-12 16:13:25

POETS CORNER: Allen Ginsberg, at center with glasses and beard, gathers with other poets outside City Lights Bookstore in 1965.

2006-04-14 11:36:29