Village Voices

In July 1982, Odile Hellier opened the Village Voice Bookshop on a quiet street near Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris. Over the next three decades, the shop became a renowned English-language bookstore and a vibrant gathering place for artists, writers, and the anglophone literary community. After the bookstore closed, Odile found herself with a valuable collection of tapes featuring talks by notable figures such as Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag and Margaret Atwood, among others. The book and the accompanying archive capture the spirit of the conversations held at the bookshop and serve as a memoir of Odile’s journey and her cherished literary haven.