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Shakespeare Sleeps Here

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Twenty-eight year old Sylvia Whitman recently inherited the famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Co., which has played host to Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and a host of other literary heavyweights, and which continues to allow young writers (aka Tumbleweeds) to live upstairs amongst the books.
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  • kencole52000
  • kenzo78
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      kenzo78  

    • What a lovely shop! What a lovely lady! Best of luck to Sylvia as she grasps the throttle of the runaway, book-scattering locomotive that is Shakespeare & Co.! Cheers to you all!

    • 1 year ago
  • golgospike
  • bookmanhofner
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      bookmanhofner  

    • Its wonderful to see and hear Sylvia.
      For a great read and a greater idea about Shakespeare
      and Company read "Time was soft there" by Jeremy Mercer. He lived at the bookshop for a while and wrote of his experiences.

    • 3 years ago
  • ajcowley
  • infuriel
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      infuriel  

    • I want to be an author someday and learning how there's places like this warms my heart. Books keep the world turning! Too bad its all the way at Paris. I would have definitely visit it often.

    • 3 years ago
  • justintiger
  • apesphere
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      apesphere  

    • I wondered what would happen to Shakespeare & Co once Sylvia took it on. I'm glad to see she is happy assuming the mantle. I have always found the shop a delightfully intimate sanctuary amid the city's impersonality. There is a place for institutions like Shakespeare & Co; they remind us that a sustainable business does not need to be driven by profit maximization, but simply by a sense of the contribution it can make to human flourishing. What other kind of business do we need?

    • 3 years ago
  • saskia
  • PaintingM
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      PaintingM  

    • Shakespeare & Co was first introduced to me by my English teacher who encouraged my class to visit it one day. It really is one of the legendary destinations for all bohemians and starving-writers.

    • 3 years ago
  • JanaPokana
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