We spoke about what Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier did for France and publishing, the many writers who’ve been associated with the shop, Sylvia's father George Whitman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia the Tumbleweed, navigating the bookshop through a global pandemic, and lockdown reading trends. Paris and fetched much notoriety for the author, Alice Coffin. I certainly picked up on both of these qualities when I sat down with Sylvia in the bookshop a few months back. Elle est aussi élue dans le 12ème arrondissement de Paris, et à la rentrée, elle a publié un livre aux Éditions Grasset, Le Génie Lesbien. Le Genie Lesbian, roughly translated as Lesbian Genius, has created a virtual storm in. James Baldwin called Shakespeare and Company the old curiosity shop while Anaïs Nin described it as a house of gentle warmth with walls of books and tea ceremonies.
She now runs it with her partner David, and together they have started a literary festival, a writing competition and opened a café next door to the bookshop. In 2004, Sylvia took over the running of the bookshop from her father George Whitman, at 23 years old. My first guest of Season 4 is Sylvia Whitman, owner of Shakespeare and Company Bookshop.
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