Start Today #3: Books, Boxes & the Web
This is the third dispatch in a series about our efforts to reduce the ecological footprint of the bookshop and café. We speak with Gersende, who runs the bookshop’s website, to discuss the steps she has taken to find a…
Start Today #2: Paris on Two Wheels
One of the first things I did after moving to Paris was to acquire a bike—a vintage Motobecane, golden-hued and beautiful, that was later, sadly, crushed by a delivery van . . . though fortunately I wasn’t on it at the…
Start Today #1: Coffee Cups & Compost
This is the first in a series of articles about the efforts we’re making at S&Co to reduce the ecological footprint of the bookshop and café. Our passionately eco-minded bookseller Karolina meets with Maiwenn, the café manager, to discuss recent…
A Year in Reading: Sylvia Whitman
“Working in a bookshop every day, seeing much-anticipated new releases being freshly unpacked and incredible vintage paperbacks that have wound their ways onto our shelves, it’s almost impossible not to slip a book into my pocket on the way out…
About Sylvia
Sylvia Whitman has been the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company since 2006. She took up the reins from her father, George Whitman, who founded the bookstore in 1951.
A Biography of a Bookstore
For two years, from 2012 to 2014, I could be found tucked into George Whitman’s former bedroom, his cat, Kitty, on my lap, reading and sorting Shakespeare and Company’s archives. It was the first and the most daunting task in creating…
About Krista
Krista Halverson is the director of Shakespeare and Company bookstore’s new publishing venture and the editor of its first release, Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart. Previously, she was the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, the art and literary quarterly published by Francis Ford Coppola and headquartered in San Francisco.