Overview
āMy entire sense of Paris centers on Odile and the bookshop.ā āRichard Ford
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In July of 1982, on a quiet boulevard just off the bustling Boulevard Saint-German, Odile Hellier opened the Village Voice Bookshop. Over the next three decades, the blue-shuttered shop would become one of the most famous English-language bookstores in Parisāa 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 exchanges of literary and cultural icons such as Susan Sontag, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Jim Harrison, Barry Gifford, Adrienne Rich, David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Edmund White, Art Spiegelman, and Stephen Spender, all of whom were drawn to Odileās tiny bookstore on Rue Princesse. This carefully curated historical archive is an enduring conversation across time, and a memoir of one womanās beloved store.
āā¦ when you squeezed into the narrow event space on theĀ Voiceās upper floor, French and international book lovers mingled with Parisian editors and publishers, shared a glass of wine, a new discovery, a heretical opinion, and took the conversation outside to the sidewalk of the Rue Princesse, for another shared pleasure: an unguilty cigarette.ā ā Livia Manera, The New Yorker
āA stroll from rue de lāOdĆ©on, Les Deux Magots or the Luxembourg Gardens, the hanging sign reads Village Voice: Anglo-American Bookshop. The narrow door and window frames are painted Greek island blueā¦ Lingering a while in front of the window display, youāll want to dive inside, into an ocean of story.ā āHazel Rowley, Bookforum
This book title, Village Voices (A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris, 1982-2012), ISBN: 9781644213797, by Odile Hellier, C.K. Williams, published by Seven Stories Press (August 6, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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