A celebration of the legacy of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris, founded by Odile Hellier in 1982-a hub of social life and a refuge for artists, writers, and anglophone literary life for over three decades until it closed in 2012.
"My entire sense of Paris centers on Odile and the bookshop." -Richard Ford
"For literature lovers, it's a feast." -Publishers Weekly
In July of 1982, on a quiet boulevard just off the bustling Boulevard Saint-German, Odile Hellier opened the Village Voice Bookshop. Over the nextthree decades, the blue-shuttered shop would become one of the most famous English-language bookstores in Paris-a vivacious hub for artists, writers, and a haven for anglophone literary life. After the its closing, Odile found herself with hundreds of tapes of various talks given at the bookshop by the greatest artists of their generation.
These voices from the past were the spontaneous...
