Fri - 8 January 2010
The Red Wheelbarrow
January is not the best time to be in Paris. But while I will spend a few days in the city, I am looking for warm and comfortable places at night after a day of sketching in the Louvre and buying some books at one of my favorite bookstores, The Red Wheelbarrow (13 rue Charles V, 4ième arr., Paris). The bookshop, owned by Penelope Fletcher Le Masson, is to Paris now what was Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Company bookshop to literary Paris of the 1920s and 30s. Her selection is well edited, the staff have read almost everything, and the cosy atmosphere is always buzzing with quirky discussions. Monthly readings and book signings draw electric crowds and it is worth a trip to the city – even in January.
