Funds raised by FOSC have contributed to allowing this space to remain open to the public as a haven for reading and discussion. The upstairs Reading Library has long been a noncommercial space, where visitors can attend writing workshops, participate in reading groups, or while away an entire day with books plucked from the Library shelves. Read on to find more information about the effects of your generous contributions. Thank you exceedingly to everyone who participated in the Association’s 2020 – 2021 program! Your support has been a great comfort to us, both financially and spiritually. Thanks to the support of Friends of Shakespeare and Company, a nonprofit association, the bookshop has been able to continue its role as a cultural platform, bringing together writers and readers both here in Paris and around the world-a role that had been seriously threatened by the pandemic and its financial fallout. Our conversation includes what Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier did for France and publishing, the many writers who’ve been associated with the shop, Sylvia's father George Whitman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia the Tumbleweed, navigating the bookshop through a global pandemic, and lockdown reading trends.Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.įriends of Shakespeare and Company, 2020 – 2021 We have so missed having our bookshop sessions in there, but many happy memories came back to me as I sat there. I certainly picked up on both of these qualities when I sat down with Sylvia in the bookshop a few months back.
James Baldwin called Shakespeare and Company the old curiosity shop while Anaïs Nin described it as a house of gentle warmth with walls of books and tea ceremonies. She now runs it with her partner David, and together they have started a literary festival, a writing competition and opened a café next door to the bookshop. In 2004, Sylvia took over the running of the bookshop from her father George Whitman, at 23 years old.
My first guest of Season 4 is Sylvia Whitman, owner of Shakespeare and Company Bookshop.
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