Talk:Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)

Featured In "Highlander"
I stayed there for 3.5 weeks in late September 1993 while on my way to the Czech Republic. One day, Mr. Whitman told me to take some boxes of books down to the dimly-lit cellar for storing, and I did. When I came back upstairs, Mr. Whitman rushed up to me and asked, "What did you think of those arches?" I said they were fantastic and asked him what that place had been. He whispered, "A monastery!" Anyway, does anyone know which episode of Season 3 of "Highlander" features the bookstore, and which episode in Season 4 features that 17th Century monastery (convent, actually) downstairs? Thanks. Was Kisevalter Nash? (talk) 21:22, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

Untitled
There is also a bookstore by this name in Vienna, Austria. Whether or not it bears any relationship to the Paris or New York stores I don’t know.

- The Paris store is the only "original" - though it has inspired store names across the world (like the NYC chain/Vienna Store). AKeen 13:59, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Tumbleweeds
"The upstairs also serves as a makeshift dormitory for travelers, known as "tumbleweeds," who earn their keep by working in the shop for a couple of hours each day."

Where can more be found about this??? - —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.200.175.23 (talk • contribs)

Permission to use the name?
The statement in the lead paragraph, that Whitman "appropriated" the name on Sylvia Beach's death, "not of her own volition," is at odds with this from Wiki's George Whitman article: "In 1962, Sylvia Beach died, willing to George Whitman a good deal of her private books and the rights to the name Shakespeare and Company." We need to determine which is right, and reconcile the two stories. 72.23.85.5 (talk) 16:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC) (Randall Lewis)

I think there is a bigger problem with this article, in that the name is a brand and despite Mr Whitman's long tenure, clearly the Sylvia Beach era during which she actively supported the publication of Joyce, is what most people believe to be the bookshop's historical importance - not as a bookshop but as Beach's platform for supporting Joyce et al. I am amazed that the article does not refer to the definitive work on the subject, Noel Riley Fitch's "Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation". (Chris Francis) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.151.115.172 (talk) 08:55, 15 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The page needs to be rewritten a bit and expanded. Anyone can edit and add, but thanks for the suggestion on the source. I have Sylvia Beach's book of memoirs about the shop - just haven't gotten around to reading it yet and adding here. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 10:49, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Should the usage of the shop several times in the Highlander series be included? I refrained from adding anything myself because if it should, I'd need to find a source first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.144.231 (talk) 20:30, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Tea party
In 1998 my wife and I wandered in. George Whiting was sitting at the cash register. He asked if I was a writer. I said yes, (well, damn it, all former English majors are writers, but some of have not been published yet). He pulled out a key and stated that I could have the room upstairs for a week. I was crushed as I was flying home the next day. A few years later in Paris again, my wife and I walked in. Talking to the young American at the desk, we discovered that he was now in that spot upstairs. We were then invited up to the tea party. It was a bit of Alice falling down the rabbit hole, but we were going up the stairs. The tea party quite the experience. George briefly made an appearance. We were all asked to recite poetry from memory. I did. We left that night and realized we wanted to do this every time in Paris. If you are there, the tea party is Sunday afternoon about 4 pm. Ask about at the front desk. The next time, a couple of years later, we came back and there was an Englishman who gave a performance from Samuel Beckett "Malloy" about the sucking stones. He was dead on with this and it was essentially free theatre. This last time there was just before George passed away. I was asked to go in back and say hello to him, by the tea party hostess. I did. But given his condition at that time it was a brief visit. BillySteve (talk) 19:42, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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I have moved the original defunct "Shakespeare and Company" Paris bookstore to its own article
Just so people don't get massively confused, I have moved the entirety of the information about Sylvia Beach's 1919-1941 bookstore to Shakespeare and Company (1919–1941). Each bookstore now has its own separate article. Softlavender (talk) 01:25, 13 September 2021 (UTC)