This June, the Hotel Sylviain Newport, Oregon is set to reopen, after a considerable renovation, with seven author-themed rooms, each filled with books curated to match, as well as literary themed rooms. The collection available throughout the hotel will be hand-picked by staff, says Jenny Nelson, vice president of operations, with input from local shops like Powell's, in Portland. Key to the curation and renovation is the concept of community building, and honoring the life and work of the hotel’s namesake, Sylvia Beach, the iconic bookseller without whom James Joyce’s Ulysses would not have been published, though Beach is probably best known as the owner of Shakespeare and Company, in Paris.
