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The most fascinating interview I've ever seen. She had such an incredible life.

"We were liberated by Ernest Hemingway." Christ, what an INCREDIBLE interview this is. This woman is AMAZING. Smiling and chuckling and effortlessly spilling incredible literary history from her laughing lips. I just totally want to hug her for her indomitable, joyous spirit.

What a pleasure to hear this clip and Sylvia's voice. I listened to it while on vacation in Paris and having visited Shakespeare & Co a few days ago. These stories are amazing and we are so lucky this clip exists. Thank you for posting it.

Hemingway said no one he ever knew was nicer to him than Sylvia Beach. I believe it.

"Would you like me to publish Ulysses?", asked Sylvia Beach, and James Joyce answered loudly: "I would!" So Sylvia was his and Ulysses' savior. How nice is this story, and all the others as well!

Has anyone noticed the St Bridget’s Cross brooch on her scarf?  Charming nod to Joyce’s Irish heritage.

Moving , Emotional .... Her simplicity, so genuine.  A lady, a woman   ! She can say: "...when I published Ulysses.."  WOW !   GREAT GREAT  This Lady in her simplicity and apparent naivety seems to have the power of a young guru. The swift power of a Yoda. Inspiring !!!

Sylvia Beach's riveting account of her time in Paris during WWII is the inspiration I needed today. Wow, what a story, with such detail.

This morning I felt weak, i had slept badly, it ist better now, To hear this woman gives me strength again. Two of my old aunts where of that kind of personality too. It is great to have this interview here. At first she would not answer the war question but then she did. What a 1962 style of answer....

I met transition co-founder and publisher of Finnegans Wake at the 1975 Paris Joyce Conference, Maria Jolas (only Eugene husband cited) and we corresponded.  MJ told me about Sylvia and Adrienne Monnier her lover, not her "friend" although the bigotry forced that language onto Sylvia at the time.  Imagine a French woman with a bookstore encouraging an American to open a competing bookstore!  What a rich brilliant courage by the daughter of a Presbyterian minister--to live an authentic life in Paris with her lover, know all the writers of her time, and publish the most "censored" book of the 20th century, Ulysses in Dijon.   Sheer brilliance and chutzpah!

She is absolutely delightful. I am jealous of her history.

What a pleasure to hear this great lady's voice and hear her tell the story I've read about so many times.

Why have I only just found this incredibly Brave Woman? Sylvia Beach is an ABSOLUTE CHAMPION. Loving this Story, Thank You XX

She was lovely and brave to start such a big thing, a book shop and a publishing house with no experience other than the passion for books and reading.

''I met Joyce one day at a party." I can't even.. Thanks very much for this video.

A wonderful storyteller in her own right.

a shout out here to the world’s greatest interviewer. he kept clammed up and let syl do her thing. that takes true talent to shut tfu when you have such a gem of an interview going.

This woman is golden. Ol' mate couldn't get a word in which is just as well because she lets rip with a wonderful story full of marvelous characters.

If there is a cuter, more adorable human being in history I haven’t seen them.