Sylvia beach

Valerie Hemingway, who later married the novelist’s son, gives an intimate tour of the cafes and other Lost Generation haunts immortalized in A Moveable Feast.

In Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, where many of his erstwhile Parisian compatriots were subjected to often exorable criticisms, Sylvia Beach remained unscathed. Hemingway wrote…

Sylvia Beach with Adrienne Monnier

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“The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956-1963,” edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil, includes 14 revelatory letters she wrote to her psychiatrist about the crisis in her marriage.

Lost Generation of writers in Paris. “Sylvia had a lively, sharply sculptured face, brown eyes that were as alive as a small animal’s and as gay as a young girl’s,” Hemingway wrote of her in his memoir. “She was kind, cheerful and interested, and loved to make jokes and gossip.

Sylvia Beach – the owner of the bookshop Shakespeare and Company – died on this day in 1962. Shakespeare and Company was nothing short of a phenomenon. A small bookshop on rue de l’Odéon that…

Cover Art by Milton Glaser Harcourt, Brace & Company (1956)

Explore Hemingway's Paris with our guide to the iconic cafes, parks, and quartiers that inspired the writer. Discover the vibrant literary world of 1920s Paris

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