Gridskipper

Expat bookstores often hover between a comforting taste of home and an irritating nexus of smug trustafarians. Paris's Shakespeare and Company is full of bearded pretentious Americans reenacting Hemingway sans talent. Happily, Berlin's Another Country, a large English-language bookstore, doesn't fall into the muck of a 1,000 poseurs. The bookstore not only houses 20,000 volumes but functions as a lending library, club and Lost screening center. Wuzzat? You know, Lost, the labyrinthinely plotted ABC show of a group of strangers stranded on an island who meet, bond and, sometimes murder, each other, a macrocosm, in other words, for life at an expat bookstore.

Another Country blog
Lost [ABC]

Previously: Berlin Wolf Parade, Berlin's Gummy Wall, Roofies, Battle of Berlin: Anti-Ad Activists and the Companies Who Co-Opt Them, Origami: Some Real Street Shit, I Will Always Bleibtreu: Berlin Boutique Hotel, Forgotten Photographer On Display in Berlin