Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Book World Just Got a Lot Less Interesting

George Whitman with daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman

If you didn't recognize it, the background photograph of SwF&F is a picture Becky took when she visited Shakespeare and Company in Paris.  Unfortunately, owner George Whitman died yesterday. 

Read his obiturary in the New York Times.

3 comments:

  1. Funny coincidence... never heard of Shakespeare and Company until today when I read about it and the owner in the memoir you gave me (the one you thought was by Jeanette Wells but is really by Jeannette Winterson). Then I came home and read your blog. Eerie.

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  2. The universe has a lot of odd synchronicity. You know how Paula from book club drove a Mini Cooper last night?

    On the walk back to Books & Books, Mitchell was bidding a fond adieu to author Mark Derr... who was in a Mini.

    Then on the bike ride home, I almost got struck on Granada... by a Mini.

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