6/29/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare and co sylvia beach![]() To start with, its scavenged floorings include marble tiling that founder George Whitman stole decades ago from Montparnasse Cemetery and laid down in an abstract mosaic around the store’s “wishing well” - a hole in which customers toss coins to be harvested by poor writers who may need change for a cheap room in Paris. The bookstore is full of legends and stories about itself. ![]() This lovely bookstore bookstore has been an oasis for generations of writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, William Styron, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers and a myriad number of other “tumbleweed” writers who have lodged here, read here, and written here in this English-language literary oasis. ![]() ![]() Since opening in 1951, this store has been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers, becoming a Left Bank literary institution. Shakespeare and Company is the marvelous English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame. ![]() One year ago, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting perhaps the most famous independent bookstore in the world with my daughter. ![]()
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