Our new happy place: Galignani, the oldest English bookstore on the continent
Galignani, 224 rue Rivoli. From their website.
We were mourning the death of the Village Voice, the English bookstore on the Left Bank, when we stepped into Galignani for the first time and our tear ducts dried up instantly. (Shakespeare and Co is fine but we hope they have vacuumed.)
Galignani near the Tuileries is the oldest bookstore on the continent, and one of the most elegant we’ve ever been in. We hyperventilated, collected ourself, sank into an armchair, and began to time-travel.
After days of looking, found one novel by Modiano in an English translation—The Search Warrant, a.k.a. Dora Bruder.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
November 3rd, 2014 at 23:03
sosyal! did it make you kilig when you entered the bookstore? do you read coelho ms. jz ?
November 4th, 2014 at 17:17
No, we do not read Coelho. Nor do we hang out with people who read Coehlo. In fact our friend got into an argument in a restaurant with total strangers because they had attributed a line from Tennyson to Coelho and would not believe him till Google confirmed it.
November 5th, 2014 at 19:03
hi Jessica. are you going to drop by the Netherlands ba? before I left PHL, I had all my Twisted books shipped over and I would definitely love to have a couple more signed!
November 8th, 2014 at 01:27
rizaulait: Not on this trip, but will alert you.