A review by andriawrites
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach, James Laughlin

5.0

I had the great privilege of briefly working at the "second" and ressurected Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris and this book made me miss Paris and its literary corners more than ever before. The stories which Beach recounts on Joyce are especially entertaining and lovely for those, like me, who are obsessed with him, his work and his genius. Aside from its content of literary entertainment, Beach provides a great first account perspective of Paris from the early 1920s to its liberation in 1944. Truly makes you wish you could time travel back to the period a la "Midnight in Paris" and never leave the Paris of Joyce and Colette and Fitzgerald.