Month: July 2014
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The Bookhouse Tour: PARIS #2, San Francisco Book Co
PARIS, July 2014 Without a lot of time left to spare in the city, I made my way to San Francisco Book Co, hoping for the best. It was along a road called Monsieur le Prince, and the architecture was wonderful. That small circle of town where I briefly wandered, looking for the shop, will…
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The Bookhouse Tour: PARIS #1, Shakespeare & Company
PARIS, July 2014 How can you even begin an entry about Paris, after everything that has been written and painted and filmed and sung, after everything you’ve heard and seen? With so much to see and interpret, how can you cover even a fraction? On another note, how can you possibly say anything about ‘my…
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The Bookhouse Tour: A Bibliophile Abroad
I connect with travelling where it intersects with literature. Specifically, that would be secondhand, English literature. The desire to explore a creek or a continent begins in the desire to find one’s way to the back cover of a book, and to the ends of a bookshelf. These Tours will describe visits to wonderful bookhouses all over…