![]() ![]() In a rare interview, Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti speaks to Stuart Maconie about his relationship with George Whitman. George Whitman took up this mantle in 1951 and attracted the writers of the Beat Generation including Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Anais Nin, and Henry Miller. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein communed, borrowed books and exchanged ideas in the original shop founded by Sylvia Beach.Ī bookshop dedicated to empowering writers, it was Sylvia Beach who first published James Joyce's Ulysses. James Joyce and the Lost Generation of Ernest Hemingway, F. Since its beginnings in 1919, Shakespeare and Company has played host to an extraordinary range of authors. ![]() Stuart Maconie travels to the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in a bid to understand how a winding, twisting, bohemian bookstore in Paris has become a draw for generations of writers. ![]()
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