Editor’s Note: Kaycie, a former Lemuria bookseller and blogger pictured left, is now living in Paris while she studies French via New York University. We are lucky to feel that we have our very own Lemurian abroad, in Paris no less, and are tickled to share some of her more-or-less book related experiences from France. Enjoy.
I just made my second visit to Shakespeare and Company. If you don’t know about Shakespeare and Co., I’ll give you this brief description: it was opened by Sylvia Beach and became the hang-out for many of the 1920s expats—you know, people like Hemingway and Joyce. That bookstore closed during the German occupation and never reopened, but the one that’s alive and well today is a tribute to Beach’s store. It primarily sells English language books (British covers, so it’s fun to see those in comparison to the books I saw every day working at Lemuria bookstore), and they also have a reading room/library and a piano to play upstairs. I love it.
I bought a tote bag to carry my schoolbooks in and an anthology recently released by Tin House called Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Sublime from Tin House, which features stories from some of my favorites including Aimee Bender, Karen Russell, Miranda July, Kelly Link, and Lydia Davis.
Here are some photos of Meryl and me exploring the store. (It was hard to get photos inside because so many people were packed in there, but suffice to say it’s magical.)
-Kaycie
This little nook is actually part of the children’s section. That wall behind Meryl is plastered with people’s love notes to the bookstore and to each other.
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