“Kerouac Opened a Million Coffee Bars”

In Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino, Kim Fellner writes: You could, in fact, argue that it wasn’t Schultz [founder of Starbucks] but author Jack Kerouac who popularized these places in the U.S. psyche. As William Burroughs wrote in 1985, “Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both […]