Idag var jag på Shakespeare and Company. Där hittade jag Jack Kerouacs moderna klassiker On the road som jag inte har läst. On the road - mer passande än så blir det väl inte? :) Bob Dylan sa om boken: "It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' " Känner ni inte till Shakespeare and Company så rekar jag Woody Allens näst senaste film Midnight in Paris med Owen Wilson i huvudrollen. "Sylvia Beach, an American expatriate from New Jersey established Shakespeare and Company in 1919 on 8 rue Dupuytren. The store functioned as a lending library as well as a bookstore. Beach moved to a larger location at 12 rue de l'Odéon in 1921, where the store remained until 1941. During this period, the store was the epicenter of Anglo-American literary culture and modernism
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