Librairie des Colonnes
A bookshop on the Boulevard Pasteur that opened in 1949 and has refused to close ever since. Samuel Beckett bought books here. Jean Genet had his mail delivered here. Paul Bowles translated Moroccan storytellers here. The shelves hold French, Arabic, English, and Spanish titles — the same four languages the city has always spoken simultaneously.
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Literary Tangier
Bowles, Burroughs, and the writers who made Tangier legendary — the cafés still serve the same mint tea and the city still doesn't explain itself.
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