In a special Scheer Intelligence from a March 2019 conversation, Robert Scheer talks with his lifelong friend and legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed recently in San Francisco at the age of 101. The two discuss a host of topics, including the importance of not selling out and the founding of San Francisco’s landmark City Lights bookshop, where Scheer worked as a young man.
This episode contains explicit language.
In conversation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Robert Scheer at Litquake Barbary Coast Award to Lawrence Ferlinghetti & City Lights 2010. Photo by Steve Rhodes/(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).