Sylvia Whitman's Obsessions

There aren't many bookshops in the world with the reputation and clientele of Shakespeare and Company. Situated on the Left Bank, opposite Notre Dame, it is the second reincarnation of the famous store founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919, which served as a melting pot for Anglo-American modernism, hosting the likes of Hemingway, Pound, Fitzgerald, Stein and Man Ray, and publishing Joyce's banned masterpiece Ulysse...