Today we had the opportunity to interview Australian writer, journalist and filmmaker, John Baxter. The interview took place in his beautiful Paris apartment located in rue de l'Odéon, in the same building where the Marquis de Sade was born and where Sylvia Beach, founder of the legendary bookshop Shakespeare and company, used to live. 

During our conversation we talked about the old bookstore, the one that opened in 1921 becoming a cultural center for expat writers and artists. James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Scott Fitzgerald, among others, met there. We talked about the life of the Beat generation in Paris during the 1950s and the publication of Tropic of Cancer under Obelisk Press. 

Baxter explained how he came up with the idea for his book A Pound of Paper and how he became a book collector from an early age fascinated by Graham Greene's literature. A big part of the interview was dedicated to the legendary Martin Stone, that mythical book dealer, cocaine addict and fugitive from justice who became John's mentor.