In Manhattan, Norman Laurila, who owns A Different Light, bemoans a tendency to beat it with the beat poets.

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More interesting than the proliferation of hip n' hipster following the Beat poets are the claims to the word's origins.

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He followed the route Kerouac took when he wrote the book and made a documentary along the way as he interviewed Beat poets and other characters from the novel who are still living.

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