 Ms. Blume also serves as literary executor of editor, bookseller, and Lost Generation icon Sylvia Beach, founder and owner of Paris’s Shakespeare and Company bookstore and library, and original publisher of James Joyce’s "Ulysses" as a book.Blume’s previous nonfiction books include "Let's Bring Back" (2010), a cultural encyclopedia celebrating hundreds of forgotten-yet-delightful objects, pastimes, fashions, delectables, and personalities from bygone eras.It was deemed “whimsical … comical … [and] delightful” by "The New Yorker" and celebrated by scores of other magazines, newspapers, and broadcasts.