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🗞️On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell🗞️
Set, ostensibly, in revolutionary France, The Future Future follows Celine from young womanhood as she navigates the shifting landscape—which is bein…
2 years, 9 months ago
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
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 b…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
Buy Up Late: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/up-late
Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities a…
2 years, 9 months ago
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
Unique in its inventiveness, unique in its prose style, unique in its point of view and unique in its sense of humour, Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Doe…
2 years, 10 months ago
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
Last week, Adam chaired a conversation between Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic, on the writing and translating of The Topeka School, at the confer…
2 years, 10 months ago
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch is the testament of Sonia—a horse trainer, a racetracker—who tells her story in taut vignettes, each of which contai…
2 years, 10 months ago
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
A few weeks back we had our dear friend, Bloomsday MC, and eminent Bloomcaster Prof. Lex Paulson as a guest in the library to give a talk on Cicero, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
We recently spent a very special evening with 2023 Pulitzer Prizewinner Hernan Diaz, discussing TRUST, his extraordinary novel of power, greed and lo…
2 years, 11 months ago
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
When Dolly Alderton stopped by for a signing we took the chance to get her to answer our Café’s Proust Questionnaire. Dolly is a self-confessed over-…
2 years, 11 months ago
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
In Watch Us Dance—Leïla Slimani’s effervescent new novel—we rejoin the Belhaj family in 1968 a dozen years into the life on an independent Morocco. A…
2 years, 11 months ago