(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>I was so lucky to get to go this summer to Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company, the iconic Paris bookstore. that opened in 1919 The line, to my delight, was incredibly long and everyone was happily waiting to check out the gems inside. Especially impressive to me were the collection of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Beat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Beat</span></a> writers, Paul <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Auster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Auster</span></a> and Vladimir <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Nabokov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nabokov</span></a> novels. I stayed for hours and bought a copy of James <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Baldwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Baldwin</span></a>'s Giovanni's Room.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ShakespeareAndCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ShakespeareAndCompany</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/litstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>litstudies</span></a></p>