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DESCRIPTION:with editor Krista Halverson and guest speakers\n\ncelebrating the release 
 of\n\nShakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of 
 the Heart\n\nPublished by Shakespeare and Company Paris\n\nEdited with 
 introduction by Krista Halverson. Foreword by Jeanette Winterson. Epilogue 
 by Sylvia Whitman\n\nA copiously illustrated account of City Lights' sister 
 store, the famed Paris bookstore on its 65th anniversary\n\nThis first-ever 
 history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and 
 poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, 
 Anaïs Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson, among 
 others--with hundreds of never-before-seen archival pieces, including 
 photographs of James Baldwin, William Burroughs and Langston Hughes, plus a 
 foreword by the celebrated British novelist Jeanette Winterson and an 
 epilogue by Sylvia Whitman, the daughter of the store's founder, George 
 Whitman. The book has been edited by Krista Halverson, director of the 
 newly founded Shakespeare and Company publishing house.\n\nGeorge Whitman 
 opened his bookstore in a tumbledown 16th-century building just across the 
 Seine from Notre-Dame in 1951, a decade after the original Shakespeare and 
 Company had closed. Run by Sylvia Beach, it had been the meeting place for 
 the Lost Generation and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses. (This 
 book includes an illustrated adaptation of Beach’s memoir.) Since Whitman 
 picked up the mantle, Shakespeare and Company has served as a 
 home-away-from-home for many celebrated writers, from Jorge Luis Borges to 
 Ray Bradbury, A.M. Homes to Dave Eggers, as well as for young authors and 
 poets. Visitors are invited not only to read the books in the library and 
 to share a pot of tea, but sometimes also to live in the bookstore 
 itself--all for free.\n\nMore than 30,000 people have stayed at Shakespeare 
 and Company, fulfilling Whitman’s vision of a "socialist utopia 
 masquerading as a bookstore." Through the prism of the shop’s history, 
 the book traces the lives of literary expats in Paris from 1951 to the 
 present, touching on the Beat Generation, civil rights, May ’68 and the 
 feminist movement--all while pondering that perennial literary question, 
 "What is it about writers and Paris?"\n\nKrista Halverson is the director 
 of Shakespeare and Company bookstore’s publishing venture. Previously, 
 she was the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, the art and literary 
 quarterly published by Francis Ford Coppola, which has won several National 
 Magazine Awards for Fiction and numerous design prizes. She was responsible 
 for the magazine’s art direction, working with guest designers including 
 Lou Reed, Kara Walker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Zaha Hadid, Wim Wenders and Tom 
 Waits, among others.\n\nJeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not 
 the Only Fruit, was published in 1985. In 1992 she was one of Granta’s 
 Best of Young British Novelists. She has won numerous awards and is 
 published around the world. Her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be 
 Normal?, was an international bestseller. Her latest novel, The Gap of 
 Time, is a "cover version" of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s 
 Tale.\n\nSylvia Whitman is the owner of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, 
 which her father opened in 1951. She took on management of the shop in 
 2004, when she was 23, and now co-manages the bookstore with her partner, 
 David Delannet. Together they have opened an adjoining cafe, as well as 
 launched a literary festival, a contest for unpublished novellas and a 
 publishing arm.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/06/18794492.php
SUMMARY:Shakespeare and Company, Paris
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/06/18794492.php
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