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James Joyce borrowed Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle from Shakespeare and Company OTD in 1931. First published in 1751 and revised in 1758, it’s a picaresque novel that has been described as a satire on human cruelty, stupidity and greed. Shakespeare and Company Project

OTD in 1928 a copy of Parenthood: Design or Accident arrived at Shakespeare and Company, as related by @matthewjchamber in ‘Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company in the English-Language Book Trade of Interwar Paris’

"How much can we learn about a person by knowing what that person read?" Following Ethelene Whitmire as she investigates Reed Peggram's reading life in Paris, now at Modernism/modernity and Journal of Cultural Analytics modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/w…

In Journal of Cultural Analytics & Modernism/modernity, Ethelene Whitmire investigates Reed Peggram's reading life at Shakespeare and Company. The article suggests how reading might shape identity... culturalanalytics.org/article/116910…

What's the last book recorded in Shakespeare and Company's vast lending library records? In "Sylvia Beach's Final Book," Keri Walsh discusses a gift of Bryher's memoirs to a young literary critic. Now Modernism/modernity and Journal of Cultural Analytics. modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/w…

Now Journal of Cultural Analytics & Modernism/modernity, Keri Walsh describes Bryher's "The Heart to Artemis" (1962) as an "avenging work" that rewrites the story of expatriate Paris to affirm "the genius and the contributions of its women, and especially its queer women." culturalanalytics.org/article/116913…

🗞️🎉Have you seen the new article cluster on the @princeton CDH-sponsored Shakespeare and Company Project, edited by Joshua Kotin (English) & CDH Lead RSE Rebecca Sutton Koeser?! Check out: bit.ly/ShakesCoProjec… or read the essays in Journal of Cultural Analytics or Modernism/modernity (they're copublished!)

How would modernist studies change if we began talking about a "von Arnim Era"? Read "A Counterfactual Canon" now at Modernism/modernity & Journal of Cultural Analytics modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/k…

Who were the authors that most divided male and female readers at Shakespeare and Company? Does the answer reveal an alternative canon of modernist literature? To find out, read "A Counterfactual Canon" Journal of Cultural Analytics & Modernism/modernity culturalanalytics.org/article/116915…

Read Fedor Karmanov and Joshua Kotin on the relationship between gender and taste at the Shakespeare and Company lending library on Print Plus and at Journal of Cultural Analytics!

Rivals or peers: Shakespeare and Company & The American Library in Paris? In "Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks" now at Journal of Cultural Analytics & Modernism/modernity, @noxrosa corrects myths about the institutions. She also shows that the ALP had 20 times as many members! culturalanalytics.org/article/116922…

What were the most popular books at Shakespeare & Co and The American Library in Paris? "Lending Books on the Left and Right Banks" by @noxrosa, now Journal of Cultural Analytics & Modernism/modernity, details the differences (and similarities!) between the two libraries. modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/c…

I had the privilege of watching this article take shape. Worth a read. I also had fun inventing this chart to convey not only the difference in borrowing by men and women but relative percentages/popularity. Inspired by butterfly/tornado charts.

"'I remember very well that around that time we read the poems of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay,” Césaire recalled in a 1967 interview." Read Caitlin O'Keefe's "Black Internationalism and Shakespeare and Company" now in Modernism/modernity & Journal of Cultural Analytics modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/o…

In "Black Internationalism and Shakespeare and Company," Caitlin O'Keefe reads Gwendolyn Bennett's diaries SchomburgCenter to illuminate her time in Paris in the 1920s. Now Modernism/modernity & Journal of Cultural Analytics. culturalanalytics.org/article/117123…

"Popularity among Shakespeare & Co readers was a significantly better predictor of enduring literary status than commercial success at time of publication." Read "Afterlives of Shakespeare & Co in Online Social Readership" Modernism/modernity & Journal of Cultural Analytics modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/a…

"Afterlives of Shakespeare & Co in Online Social Readership" compares 2 reading communities: Sylvia Beach's lending library & Goodreads. But it also reveals a friendship between 2 readers: Alice Killen & France Raphaël. Now Journal of Cultural Analytics & Modernism/modernity culturalanalytics.org/article/116919…

Recommendation systems can suggest books to read. But can they resolve gaps in historical archives? In "Missing Data, Speculative Reading" Rebecca Sutton Koeser & Zoe LeBlanc @[email protected] identify books Hemingway read at Shakespeare & Co / Modernism/modernity & Journal of Cultural Analytics modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/k…

A brilliant article about how to understand gaps in historical archives. In Journal of Cultural Analytics & Modernism/modernity, Rebecca Sutton Koeser & Zoe LeBlanc @[email protected] use computational models to rebuild Sylvia Beach's lending library records, inc. Hemingway's missing borrowing records! culturalanalytics.org/article/116926…

Sylvia Beach published 'Ulysses' by James Joyce in 1922 WATCH: ‘Self Portrait’ broadcast in 1962 Bloomsday Festival The James Joyce Centre YesDerry #BloomsdayFestival rte.ie/archives/2022/…