What can you say to a young person who wants to write? How about "Give a Reading!" If City Lights did not exist, there would be one very small list of titles coming out of San Francisco. I don't say that everyone that has gone to North Beach has eventually become a published author...but...when you even have a movie; like that of the Keefer Sutherland & "Captain America" (Easy Rider )which ends ( "starts-off") at The CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE in San Francisco, and Dennis Hopper is the "Beat" who finally makes it; it is a tribute, and should inspire the younger artists to give it a try-and tell all the "wiser" Bohemians to give it "another try!" Read the stuff from the guy that supported all the other struggling voices, and breath easy.