Interview with a Bookstore: Albertine, a little Paris in New York

A bookshop opened to promote French literature in the American metropolis is full of eccentric regulars and great stories – Albertine’s booksellers share them, and give French book recommendations

• Interview with a Bookstore from Literary Hub is part of the Guardian Books Network
  

• Scroll down for the staff recommendations shelf

Albertine is a foundation that opened in September in 2014, hosted by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York. The store was opened to help promote French culture in New York, especially the literary arts. But also to make books more easily available to Francophone people in New York, especially since the store that had been in Rockefeller Center closed several years ago. The store has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times and all over the French media.

What is your favorite section of the store?

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