S1 Ep. 3: Charlotte Delattre & Terry Craven, Desperate Literature (Madrid, Spain)

There is a pair of lemon trees outside the Desperate Literature multilingual bookshop in Madrid and you could say that if God gave them lemons, owners Terry and Charlotte made a damn good lemonade with this literary haven. In their own words, Desperate Literature sells books. Real books. Desperate ones. Paper and glue. But actually, Desperate Literature is also a community, event space, a publishing house, and a home. That's right, self-diagnosed book fanatics Terry Craven and Charlotte Delattre live above and in the vicinity of the bookshop. They both worked at the world-famous Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company for a few years before opening Desperate Literature, inviting Madrilenos, travelers and unidentified walk-ins to write a poem on their vintage typewriter or take a shot of whiskey with a book purchase. We chat with Terry and Charlotte today to find out about the joys and despairs of their lives as booksellers. Find us on social media @gotbookspodcast Books recommended by Charlotte and Terry: Rinko Kawauchi: Illuminance; The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolano; Conversations With Friends, by Sally Rooney; Room to Dream, by David Lynch; Rainbow Milk, by Paul Mendez; The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson; On the Road, by Jack Kerouac; Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath; The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald