{"id":165133,"date":"2023-08-09T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=165133"},"modified":"2023-08-09T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:54:49","slug":"how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"

Photograph by Jacqueline Feldman.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWith a diving suit and helmet,\u201d said Yannick Poirier, the owner of Tschann bookstore on the boulevard Montparnasse, where he has worked for thirty-five years, \u201cand with dark glasses, earplugs, and a plan for survival and retreat to the countryside. I hate sport. That\u2019s personal, but I hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games, and, how to put this. You are American? So you know Jean Baudrillard. For us he was a friend, Jean Baudrillard. So he has The Consumer Society<\/em>, like Debord has The Society of the Spectacle<\/em>, and all that sticks to us like shit. No, frankly, the Olympic Games\u2014for me they leave me neither hot nor cold. They leave me totally indifferent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are books about sport,\u201d offered a bookseller at Le Genre urbain, \u201cbut they are very distant disciplines, all the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there are any,\u201d they said at Le Monte-en-l\u2019air, \u201cand if they are good, we have them.\u201d This clerk, like their counterpart at Le Genre urbain, was \u201cagainst\u201d the Olympics (\u201cin a personal capacity,\u201d they added at Le Genre urbain). Both bookstores, singled out for questioning out of the city\u2019s hundreds, are in the twentieth arrondissement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll of course have a few books,\u201d they said at Les Travers\u00e9es, \u201cbut in a corner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not going to decorate the bookstore,\u201d said Anne-Sophie Hanich, managing Les Nouveaut\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Olympic Games,\u201d said Gildas, his first name, at Les Travers\u00e9es, which is half-buried in the hill of the rue Mouffetard (\u201cI detest my family name\u201d), \u201care not the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have other things to think about,\u201d they said at Le Merle moqueur, on the rue de Bagnolet. \u201cWe have other problems right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLiterature, first of all,\u201d Gildas went on. \u201cAnd then, well. Thought, imagination, reflection, beauty, love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem of getting clients to come in. Social problems.\u201d At Le Merle moqueur, the clerk wrapped a book for gifting.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think an independent bookstore isn\u2019t a business like any other?\u201d Olivier Delautre at La Cartouche, where his own trade has been, for sixteen years, in antique and used books, was leaning back in a low chair, letting it tilt. As a bouquiniste, Delautre sets himself apart from peddlers of new books, whom he sees as profit-minded. \u201cThese are small people,\u201d he said, \u201cwho are there to carry boxes.\u201d His colleagues who sell out of iconic boxes along the Seine have mobilized against a prefectural injunction to remove themselves ahead of next year\u2019s opening ceremony (for the reason, the prefecture told them, of \u201cterrorism\u201d risk). \u201cI sell principally old books,\u201d Delautre said, \u201cpublished at a time when sports did not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the Librairie des Abbesses, Marie-Rose Guarni\u00e9ri, who had been described to me at Les Travers\u00e9es as the grand dame of the Parisian bookstore, told me to come back in fifteen minutes and, by the time I did, was in a fury. I had been expecting her to speak to me of her own m\u00e9tier without making an appointment, she accused. \u201cYou must make an appointment,\u201d she repeated. \u201cI am not some button you can just push,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment it\u2019s still a little early,\u201d said Chafik Bakiri, the owner of Equinoxe, where \u201ceighty percent\u201d of stock is secondhand books. \u201cCurrently I don\u2019t have any ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that during the Olympic Games we will do strictly nothing other than what we\u2019ve been doing for ninety years,\u201d said Poirier.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing,\u201d Gildas said. \u201cAnd so it\u2019s simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOld posters,\u201d Bakiri mused. \u201cObjects, medals, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we\u2019ll do one window about sports,\u201d said Hanich. \u201cMaybe some French flags.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI live in Saint-Denis,\u201d they said at Le Monte-en-l\u2019air, \u201cand we\u2019ll be particularly affected.\u201d The suburb just north of Paris, its name\u2014like the name of the poorest department in mainland France, the 93, where it is situated\u2014is in wide use as a metonym for institutional neglect and the suffering of whole communities; the national stadium, located there, will be one of the principal sites for the 2024 Summer Olympics (\u201cthe biggest event ever organised in France,\u201d according to official messaging). Leaving Le Monte-en-l\u2019air, I saw the window was lined by copies of On ne dissout pas un soul\u00e8vement<\/em>, Seuil\u2019s new release by forty authors writing in support of Soul\u00e8vements de la Terre, a collection of groups in France organized around local environmental causes. In the 93 in Aubervilliers, local activists have been partially successful in defending community gardens against their demolition to make way for, among other things, the Paris Olympics Aquatics Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we know,\u201d said Xavier Capodano, after making me a coffee, espresso, in an office at Le Genre urbain, which he founded. (\u201cRelax,\u201d he said as we went back there. \u201cI\u2019m not nice, but I\u2019m not going to eat you.\u201d) \u201cThirty or forty years ago, we didn\u2019t know where we were going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Capodano was referring explicitly to the link between runaway construction and \u201cthe planet\u2019s quality of life.\u201d It was a summer of, once again, high temperatures everywhere (with the notable exception of Paris, where it has rained almost every day); of service outages along the Paris metro for planned work (\u201cThe Line 5 is closed,\u201d I complained to a friend, \u201cbetween Gare du Nord and the rest of the world\u201d); and of, in this city definingly, the death of Nahel Merzouk, seventeen, shot in the chest by a Paris-region policeman during a traffic stop. \u201cI\u2019m not convinced,\u201d I heard, \u201cof the book\u2019s role in the revolution.\u201d This was from a worker at a bookstore in the east of Paris who asked me to identify it in that way only. They had the sense, they said, that their \u201crole in society,\u201d their part in its duties of care, had been greater when they were on unemployment. They had time then to participate in a neighborhood group like a soup kitchen, which was organized horizontally (so that \u201cthere wasn\u2019t any distinction\u201d between volunteer and beneficiary). Not anymore. \u201cWe\u2019re a business,\u201d they said of the bookstore, \u201cbefore anything else.\u201d And so the store retained a certain \u201cexpressive space\u201d in being able to, say, \u201cdo a bit of publicity for Soul\u00e8vements de la Terre,\u201d but to the worker this did not seem, at all times, adequate. We spoke in a courtyard of modern, unfancy construction, unplanted. \u201cThe moments of radical transformation of society I\u2019ve had the chance to see have been more in its insurrectional phases,\u201d they said, \u201cand I haven\u2019t necessarily seen insurrectional phases opened up immediately from reading books\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the abstract,\u201d said Anne, \u201cliterature can do anything it likes.\u201d A retired sociology professor, she was volunteering at Quilombo, a \u201cbookstore of the extreme left, anarchist in fact.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not my place to judge what literature should or shouldn\u2019t do,\u201d said Capodano. \u201cLiterature does what it wants. It lives its life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me,\u201d said Poirier, as if demonstrating a last, important capacity of literature, \u201cit\u2019s as if the Olympic Games did not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jacqueline Feldman is a writer living in Massachusetts<\/em>. Precarious Lease,<\/em> her book about Paris, is forthcoming from Rescue Press.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68673],"tags":[68646,67827,8014,4617],"class_list":["post-165133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-overheard","tag-bookselling","tag-featured","tag-olympics","tag-protest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics by Jacqueline Feldman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 9, 2023 \u2013 \u201cI hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics by Jacqueline Feldman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"August 9, 2023 \u2013 \u201cI hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-09T14:48:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-09T18:54:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1397\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jacqueline Feldman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jacqueline Feldman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jacqueline Feldman\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c071e412d9b9ac77ff2c3a0771de7075\"},\"headline\":\"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-09T14:48:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-09T18:54:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/\"},\"wordCount\":1233,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers-1024x946.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"bookselling\",\"Featured\",\"Olympics\",\"protest\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Overheard\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/\",\"name\":\"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics by Jacqueline Feldman\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers-1024x946.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-09T14:48:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-09T18:54:49+00:00\",\"description\":\"August 9, 2023 \u2013 \u201cI hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.\u201d\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers.jpg\",\"width\":1512,\"height\":1397},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c071e412d9b9ac77ff2c3a0771de7075\",\"name\":\"Jacqueline Feldman\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3321073dbb4f9698a3aa7f46f5e6f8f4a29e68e6bbbb37ad4f289574d40af02?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3321073dbb4f9698a3aa7f46f5e6f8f4a29e68e6bbbb37ad4f289574d40af02?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jacqueline Feldman\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/jfeldman2\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics by Jacqueline Feldman","description":"August 9, 2023 \u2013 \u201cI hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.\u201d","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics by Jacqueline Feldman","og_description":"August 9, 2023 \u2013 \u201cI hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2023-08-09T14:48:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-08-09T18:54:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1512,"height":1397,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jacqueline Feldman","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jacqueline Feldman","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/"},"author":{"name":"Jacqueline Feldman","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c071e412d9b9ac77ff2c3a0771de7075"},"headline":"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics","datePublished":"2023-08-09T14:48:36+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-09T18:54:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/"},"wordCount":1233,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers-1024x946.jpg","keywords":["bookselling","Featured","Olympics","protest"],"articleSection":["Overheard"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/","name":"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics by Jacqueline Feldman","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers-1024x946.jpg","datePublished":"2023-08-09T14:48:36+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-09T18:54:49+00:00","description":"August 9, 2023 \u2013 \u201cI hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/booksellers.jpg","width":1512,"height":1397},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/how-the-booksellers-of-paris-are-preparing-for-next-summers-olympics\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer\u2019s Olympics"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c071e412d9b9ac77ff2c3a0771de7075","name":"Jacqueline Feldman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3321073dbb4f9698a3aa7f46f5e6f8f4a29e68e6bbbb37ad4f289574d40af02?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3321073dbb4f9698a3aa7f46f5e6f8f4a29e68e6bbbb37ad4f289574d40af02?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jacqueline Feldman"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/jfeldman2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165133"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165142,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165133\/revisions\/165142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}