101: Sylvia Beach and Ulysses

James Joyce with Sylvia Beach (source)

In this week’s mini, we’re talking about Sylvia Beach, the American who in 1919 founded the beloved bookshop Shakespeare and Company on Paris’s Left Bank. Beach also played an instrumental role in the 1922 publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Discussed in this episode: 

Sylvia Beach

Shakespeare and Company 

Ulysses by James Joyce

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Ernest Hemingway

Ezra Pound

1962 Interview with Sylvia Beach

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