I’ve been lucky enough to visit Paris twice,
but for whatever reason, neither visit included a stop by the Shakespeare &
Co. bookstore. <cue the sad trombones>
Thankfully we can all
take a virtual visit to this fabled bookshop by watching the documentary below,
“Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man,” which takes a look at George Whitman’s
re-incarnation of Sylvia Beach’s left bank book boutique, including the
Tumbleweed Hotel, where travelers can overnight amidst the stacks in return for
a little day-time labor and the promise of plowing through some good books while
a guest. Here’s part 1:
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