Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company, once a hub for the Lost Generation, has become iconic in popular culture. [1] The continued cultural prominence of the bookshop and lending library is no accident. Beach knew that publishing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) would make Shakespeare and Company famous. Her memoir, published in 1959, is an exercise in name-dropping. She celebrates her relationships with writers, from Joyce to Gertrude Stein, and from Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright. And...