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“One minute I was a visitor just like any other, and the next minute I was welcomed in to this huge, historic community of writers and expatriates.”
Shakespeare and Company is an independent bookstore in Paris that caters to English-language readers.
Sylvia Beach originally opened the store in 1919 and writers like Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce congregated there, but she had to close it in 1940 when the Nazis occupied Paris.
Molly Dektar
The shop has also served as a home to wandering literary types called Tumbleweeds since the 1950s.
In 1951, an American expatriate named George Whitman opened another English-language bookstore that he eventually renamed Shakespeare and Company in honor of Sylvia Beach. It was a literary haven for Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.
Molly Dektar
Molly Dektar, a 23-year-old MFA student at Brooklyn College, lived at Shakespeare and Company in January and June 2013.
After George died in 2011, his daughter Sylvia Whitman (named after Sylvia Beach) took over the shop.
Molly Dektar
"One minute I was a visitor just like any other, and the next minute I was welcomed in to this huge, historic community of writers and expatriates," she explained.
Young writers are invited to stay at Shakespeare and Company without any form of payment, as long as they work in the bookstore for a couple of hours every day and commit to reading and writing every single day. Molly told BuzzFeed she first went to the shop in January 2013, which is an easier time of year for Tumbleweeds to find lodging.
Molly Dektar
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