I’ll be there next week (WHAT?!)… RIP :( englishprof: George Whitman, the American-born owner of Shakespeare & Company, a fabled English-language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris and a magnet for writers, poets and tourists for close to 60 years, died on Wednesday. He was 98. “I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life,” he once said. R.I.P., sir.
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I’ll be there next week (WHAT?!)…

RIP :(

englishprof:

George Whitman, the American-born owner of Shakespeare & Company, a fabled English-language bookstore on the Left Bank in Paris and a magnet for writers, poets and tourists for close to 60 years, died on Wednesday. He was 98.

“I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life,” he once said.

R.I.P., sir.

(via she-thinks)

Source: The New York Times

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    I’ll have to stop there while in Paris
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    Just heard about this on The BBC Newshour. Was just reading about it the Hedy Lamarr biography I’m reading, and fondly...
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    BRB going to go hug my copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with the Shakespeare & Co. stamp on the inside...
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    I can’t believe I forgot to visit this place!! (I mean It’s not like I would have met him there anyway, but still…)
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    I’ll be there next week (WHAT?!)… RIP :(