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The Shakespeare and Company Interview — 215 episodes · page 2 of 3
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
On Anti-Memoir, the Weird, and New Kinds of Disaster, with M. John Harrison
On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo
How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt
✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
📚How to Resist Amazon and Why, with Danny Caine📚
On Old Wounds, Finding Peace, and Returning Home, with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
🗺️On Sarajevo, Multiple Worlds and History at the Fringes, with Aleksandar Hemon🗺️
❤️🔥Valentine’s Special: Meena Kandasamy on The Book of Desire❤️🔥
On Parents, Grief and the difference between Fiction and Memoir, with Elizabeth McCracken
🎸Music, Sugar and other Obsessions, with Don Paterson🎸
📚Books of the Year📚
👩🎨Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men👩🎨
📘BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL📘
🔥Sarah Churchwell on Gone with the Wind, January 6th, and the Lies America Tells🔥
🔔Hunchback of Notre-Dame Special! 🔔
🐋How to Speak to Whales (and other animals…) with Tom Mustill🐋
💋On Love, Loss and Life in New York, with Coco Mellors💋
On Writing the Queer, Indigenous Experience with Billy-Ray Belcourt
🍫Jonathan Coe on Bournville🍫
🍄Psychedelic Storytelling, DIY Magick, and the New Masculinity, with David Keenan🍄
🥊 Miriam Toews on Sweary Matriarchs, the Absurdity of Life, and the Human Imperative to Experience Joy🥊
🎤 Sunday Poetry: Mark Polizzotti reads his new translations of Arthur Rimbaud🎤
🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈
🏅BONUS: Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize in Literature🏅
🐴💰On Friendship and Redemption in the time of the Gold Rush, with Paddy Crewe💰🐴
👭🏽On Friendship, Politics and when the Two Collide, with Kamila Shamsie👭🏽
🎸🤵♂️The Beatles, James Bond and the British Psyche ,with John Higgs🤵♂️🎸
🎤 Sunday Poetry: Tayi Tibble reads from Poūkahangatus🎤
🎹Ian McEwan on Lessons🎹
🇺🇸 A.M. Homes on Satire, the American Dream, and Reaching Across the Political Divide🇺🇸
🐇On Transcendence, Parental Failure & writing Indiana, with Tess Gunty🐇
☭🎩When Young Stalin came to London, with Stephen May🎩☭
After Sappho, with Selby Wynn Schwartz
👨🏼✨Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man✨👨🏾
⏳Time Travel, Autofiction & Never-ending Book Tours, with Emily St John Mandel⌛
🎓😵💫Disorientation: A Wild Satire of 21st-Century Campus Life, with Elaine Hsieh Chou😵💫🎓
🇬🇧🔨How Britain Broke the World, with Arthur Snell🔨🇬🇧
🎾Geoff Dyer on Roger Federer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sensing an Ending…🎾
👨❤️👨On Love, Grief and Male Friendship, with Michael Pedersen👨❤️👨
🎙️🍃Ali Smith on Companion Piece (live in the bookshop!)🍃🎙️
🐑Ottessa Moshfegh on Power, Magic…and her Pirate Ancestors🐑
🥀On Darkness, Fables and Heartbreak, with Vanessa Onwuemezi🥀
A World Without Men, with Sandra Newman (Live at Hey Festival)
On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing
Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss
📱Love (and Life) in the time of Algorithms, with Jem Calder📱
🐍🎲Luck, Life and Little Snakes, with DBC Pierre🎲🐍
On imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo Jefferson
On Prison, Literature and Grief with Preti Taneja
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime
📘🎸Special Episode: Music for Ulysses with Alex Freiman🎸📘
George Saunders on Reading Better, Writing Better, and Living Better
Memory, Guilt and the Hunt for a Nazi Fugitive with Philippe Sands
Global Disorder and the road to war in Ukraine, with Helen Thompson
On the Pleasures (and Pains) of Rereading, with Rob Doyle
Dostoyevsky, the Parisian murderer, and the creation of a masterpiece, with Kevin Birmingham
An insider’s history of Rock & Roll, with Lenny Kaye
Poetry, class, and radical performance, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
** Valentine's Special ** Love, Language and London with Xiaolu Guo
Comedy and the Culture Wars, with Andrew Hankinson
Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men
Introducing Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses
Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses
A Parisian bus ride with Lauren Elkin
Claire Messud on A Dream Life
BONUS: Cerys Matthews reads A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
Sarah Hall on Burntcoat
Welcome to Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books and Paris
Aysegül Savas on White on White
Philip Hoare on Albert & the Whale
Lauren Groff on Matrix
Poets Richard Barnett and Luke Kennard in conversation
Katharina Volckmer on The Appointment
Armando Iannucci on Pandemonium
Eimear McBride on Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust
Richard Powers on Bewilderment
BONUS PODCAST* Poetry from Archipelago Books
David Runciman on Confronting Leviathan
Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North
Ian Dunt on How to Be a Liberal
Leïla Slimani on The Country of Others
Tom McCarthy on The Making of Incarnation
Claire-Louise Bennett on Checkout 19
David Keenan on Monument Maker
Elif Shafak on The Island of Missing Trees
Pola Oloixarac and John Freeman, in conversation
Katie Kitamura on Intimacies
Jakuta Alikavazovic on Night As It Falls
Laurent Binet on Civilisations
Eliot Higgins on We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People