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unc70

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1. Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Sat Nov 16, 2019, 01:02 AM

Nov 2019

This is the title of a fascinating documentary about George Whitman and Shakespeare & Co. I found it particularly interesting because I had spent a lot of time there while living in Paris in the mid 1970s. At that time, the bookstore was more welcoming to Americans and the English language than almost anywhere in France. Really hard to describe the weird mixture of people and events that it attracted and nourished.

(By the late 1980s, the attitudes of the French towards Americans had changed remarkably.).

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100 Years of Shakespeare & Company Bookstore In Paris [View all] appalachiablue Nov 2019 OP

Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man unc70 Nov 2019 #1

I found a clip of the film See #2, quite interesting. When appalachiablue Nov 2019 #3

Film, "Portrait of A Bookstore As An Old Man," 2003 (Clip) appalachiablue Nov 2019 #2

A talk with manager Sylvia Beach Whitman, daughter of George, 2010 appalachiablue Nov 2019 #4