Podcasts
Stay in touch with the bookshop through our weekly podcast, Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books and Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles the podcast features conversations with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded live from the bookshop.
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Subscribers on Apple Podcasts and Patreon get regular bonus episodes including: Bookseller Recommendations, Interviews from the Archive, Intro to Rare Book Collecting, and other treats! All proceeds go to support Friends of Shakespeare and Company.
On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq
28 September 2023
This week, Adam was joined in the writer’s studio by Marie Darrieussecq, whose latest book Sleepless (translated by Penny Hueston and published by Fitzcarraldo) is one writer’s attempt to describe...
On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.
14 September 2023
This week our host switches chairs to discuss his new book, Beasts of England, his state-of-the-farmyard novel about back-stabbers, truth-twisters and corrupt charlatans....
Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour
10 September 2023
Joyce Mansour was a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt whose fierce, macabre, erotically charged works gave André Breton’s Surrealist group a much-needed jolt after the ravages of the Second World...
On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell
31 August 2023
Mark O’Connell’s new book A Thread of Violence is the writer’s attempt to understand Malcolm MacArthur, the figure at the centre of one of Ireland’s most notorious crimes, and —...
On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell
17 August 2023
Set, ostensibly, in revolutionary France, The Future Future follows Celine from young womanhood as she navigates the shifting landscape—which is being transformed as much by new media, new ways of...
On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs
03 August 2023
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs was first published ten years ago, self-published in fact, and quickly became a phenomenon. Ostensibly...
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses
27 July 2023
933 Pages, 110 readers, (roughly) 70 characters, 18 Sections, 5 months, 1 book. 100 years.
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read ULYSSES by James Joyce. Listen to the full series here....
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
23 July 2023
Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and...
