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\"shakespeareandco\"<\/a>

A drawing by Le Gun to commemorate \u201cTales from the Void.\u201d Click to enlarge; see below for a list of references.<\/p><\/div>\n

The art collective Le Gun (Steph von Reiswitz, Neal Fox, Chris Bianchi, and Robert Greene) has mounted \u201cTales from the Void<\/a>,\u201d a stealthy takeover of the Shakespeare and Company<\/a> bookstore, that Parisian mainstay. Their installation comprises hand-drawn \u201csculptural books\u201d\u2014many with fake but disarmingly plausible titles like Encyclopedia of Beatnikism<\/em> and The Minotaur of Montmartre<\/em>\u2014hidden among the shop\u2019s shelves. You\u2019ll find some favorites below.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve also completed the large-scale drawing above, a sprawling tribute to the history and culture of the bookshop that depicts various writer personages, including\u2014count them all\u2014George Whitman, Michael Smith, Ezra Pound, Gregory Corso, Olympia,\u2028 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Joyce, Paul Auster, Frank Sinatra, Colette the Dog, Martin Amis, Henry Miller, Aaron Budnik, Richard Wright, Sylvia Whitman, Lawrence Durrell, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, James Baldwin, Sylvia Beach, Ray Bradbury, William Burroughs, Dionysus, James Jones, Zadie Smith, the \u201cgeneric spirit of Beatnikism,\u201d Ana\u00efs Nin, and Kitty, the shop\u2019s resident cat. <\/p>\n

\"telepathictypewriter\"<\/a> \"strangefromage\"<\/a> \"poisonwig\"<\/a> \"lustforlife\"<\/a> \"loveontheautobahn\"<\/a> \"greatanecdotes\"<\/a> \"girlinraincoat\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Dan Piepenbring is the web editor of <\/em>The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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