Shakespeare & Co

I visited this bookshop by accident in Paris about a year ago, completely ignorant of its significance until I visited the Pompidou a few days later and saw a picture of Joyce sitting where I had stood leafing through a volume of Jerome Rothenberg's poetry. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Jeanette Winterson has written an article in The Guardian about how the bookshop is planning to survive the ongoing financial shitstorm. Perhaps a wily London bookshop owner will open their doors to lodgers.