Full name: Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart

Author: Krista Halverson Year: 2016 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9791096101009

This is a first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris. It interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Anais Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson, among others--with hundreds of never-before-seen archival pieces. It includes photographs of James Baldwin, William Burroughs and Langston Hughes, plus a foreword by the celebrated British novelist Jeanette Winterson and an epilogue by Sylvia Whitman, the daughter of the store's founder, George Whitman. The book has been edited by Krista Halverson, director of the newly founded Shakespeare and Company publishing house. Similar books: Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy Walt Disney by B. G. Thomas Working by Studs Terkel Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Yeager by Chuck Yeager You Can't Win by Jack Black Joseph Fouche by Stefan Zweig