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Editions - Episode 2 - Illusions with Megan Nolan
Paris, Deconstructed: Amit Chaudhuri’s Château Rouge
The End of Everything, with M. John Harrison
Alain Delon, Murder and Paris ’68, with Edward Chisholm
BLOOMCAST: 🎬Ulysses Movie Watch-along Special🎬
Fear Less: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry in Perilous Times
Editions - Episode 1 - Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes with Taìno Mendez
Lea Ypi: Dignity, Fiction, and the Lives History Erases
Shelter and Storm: Arundhati Roy on Writing Her Mother
Ben Lerner on Transcription
Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Odyssey
Rare Book Collecting with Ben Brown
Going South: Tash Aw on Inheritance, Identity, and Escape
Booker Prize Winner David Szalay on Agency, Violence, and Restraint
Murder, Mannerism and the Medicis with Laurent Binet
George Saunders: Fiction, Free Will, and the Question of Redemption
Narrative Amid Trauma: Emily LaBarge in conversation
See It, Say It, Sorted: Jonathan Coe’s Genre-Bending Novel
Books Matter More Than Ever: A Conversation with Ian Patterson
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, with Ian Leslie
When Stories Fall Apart: Miriam Robinson on Love, Loss, and Truth
Why We Write, Why We Live, with Miriam Toews
How France Lost Its Way, with Andrew Hussey
Philippe Sands: Pinochet, Walter Rauff, and the Shadows of History
Moonlight Express: Monisha Rajesh on the Magic of Night Trains
Twenty Writers, One Bookshop: The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, now in paperback
Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne
Calls May Be Recorded: Lipstick, Loneliness, and Late Capitalism with Katharina Volckmer
The Shape of Survival: Eimear McBride on Love, Art, and the City
Katie Kitamura on Fiction’s Shifting Realities
Renton Returns, Sick Boy in Love: Irvine Welsh Reimagines His Antiheroes
Inside the Story Machine: Natasha Brown on Media, Power, and Fiction
Making Sense of Gertrude Stein, with Francesca Wade
Geoff Dyer’s Homework: Family, Class, and Memory
Rebecca Solnit: Changing the Story, Changing the World
The Book That Refuses to End: Catherine Lacey on The Möbius Book
Writing the Unspeakable: Neige Sinno on Abuse, Memory, and Language
On the Edge of the Real: Guadalupe Nettel on The Accidentals
William Blake, Sea Monsters, and the Ecstasy of Art, with Philip Hoare
Overnight: Dan Richards on Sleep, Service, and the Secrets of the Small Hours
Bruise, Heal, Repeat: Anna Whitwham on On Boxing, Loss, and the Female Body
Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, and Writing the Impossible *International Booker Prize Shortlist*
Nobel Prizewinner Abdulrazak Gurnah on Theft, Love, and the Power of Fiction
BONUS: Jeremy Pelt on Preserving Jazz Through Storytelling
Reimagining Moby-Dick, with Xiaolu Guo
2016: The Year That Broke Us - with poet and oral-historian Sarah Hesketh
The Power of Voice – Sulaiman Addonia on The Seers
Acts of Resistance: Amber Massie-Blomfield on the Power of Art to Shape a Better World
Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
Yasmin Zaher on The Coin
David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…”
Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World…
Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…”
Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution”
BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis)
Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer)
Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian
Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry”
On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024)
Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits
Roxy Dunn on As Young As This
Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions
Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
Paul Murray on The Bee Sting
Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
Rachel Cusk on Art, Violence and Freedom through Destruction
When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru
Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries
BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd!
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities
Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen
Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale
Bidding adieu to Freeman’s literary journal, with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Deborah Landau, Juan Gabriel Vazquez, and John Freeman
On Friendship, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
Love in the Time of Creative-Writing Classes, with Brandon Taylor
Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
☕Proust Questionnaire: Holly McNish & Michael Pedersen☕
BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD
😱On Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Adam Thirlwell😱
👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼
Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland
🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘
🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕
👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️
⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵
🛏️On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq🛏️
🐖On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.🐖
💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎
🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠
🗞️On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell🗞️
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late