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Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare & Co.
On this day in 1919 American expatriate Sylvia Beach opened her bookshop-library, "Shakespeare and Company," at 12 rue de l'Odeon, in the Left Bank section of Paris. It was an intellectual and social center for the international literary community throughout the World War years, a place where Joyce, Hemingway, Stein, et al. could be not only read, but found. Beach's determination to publish Joyce's Ulysses made her bookshop famous (and a popular stop for many book-smugglers); ironically, it was her refusal to sell her last copy of Finnegans Wake which caused her doors to finally close ... FULL STORY »
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