/lit/ - Literature

Have you ever dream of owning a book store?

What progress does a book need to go through in order to be titled as "Classic" ?

Any anons here book in a bookstore?

Do you buy your books or borrow from the library?

>>5062849
I was in Paris a couple weeks ago and I was reading through Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast", following along and visiting some of the sights he described while he lived there.
One place he descibed in detail was the bookstore Shakespeare and Company. He and other authors such as James Joyce and Scott Fitzgerald would go there to borrow or purchase books, or to write.
So I went to visit it, and it was incredible. There were pictures of famous authors everywhere, and every nook and cranny of the place was filled with books to purchase or borrow. There was a little space upstairs with a public typewriter where people from all over the world had written notes and posted them on the wall. There was one room with some desks and a couple cots where even today writers will come to work, and if they end up writing late into the night, they just sleep there and pick up again in the morning.
It was really inspiring. Anyways I bought a copy of Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night," which I hadn't read before.
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