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Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Walt Whitman's two greatest post-Civil War poems were about Abraham Lincoln. The great poet-humanist and great president never formally met, although they passed frequently on the street in then small-town Washington. As the war got underway, Whitman published "Beat! Beat! Drums!" as a patriotic rallying cry for the Union after the 42-year-old poet's brother George joined...
I V Y Paris (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... current home of Shakespeare & Co was originally a bookshop called Le Mistral , opened in 1951 by George Whitman. With permission from Sylvia, the name was changed in 1962 and the spirit of the original Shakespeare & Co lives on. Like Sylvia who nurtured young talent, George took young poets and writers under his wing, allowing them to stay for free in return for two hours of...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The English-language bookstore on Paris' left bank, Shakespeare and Company , has been a draw for generations of expatriate writers. That goes for both its first iteration, owned by Sylvia Beach, who was the original publisher of James Joyce's "Ulysses," and the more recent version, opened in 1951 by George Whitman. And those writers are rendered in portraits in a new mural in the shop,...
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... history is assured by its association (over two incarnations, with the second being owned by George Whitman) with such luminaries as Ernest Hemingway , F Scott Fitzgerald , George Bernard Shaw , Ezra Pound , Gertrude Stein , Alice B Toklas , Pablo Picasso , Baz le Tuff , TS Eliot , Paul Valèry , André Gide , James Joyce , Thornton Wilder , André Malraux...
Badaude (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Got to keep the balance.' I draw through lunch. Balanced on the benches, one foot in the door to George Whitman's apartment, I catch a whiff of WIFI from the office. Syliva's amythyst necklace: Maitresse's amythyst necklace. After hours: still working. Lauren shelves books, Gemma and Gemma shelve books. Sylvia shelves books. Magazine editors arrive, photograph the walls. I notice...
Peter's Paris (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... to sell a book - by Joyce - to a German officer. The buisness was taken over after the War by George Whitman, who opened the "Shakespeare & Co" we know today, rue de la Bûcherie.) The same and other authors also met at Gertrude Stein's flat, 27 rue de Fleurus . These were the days when these friends also discovered "Le Select", "Le Dôme",...
