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Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
What is a Chilean Poet? According to Pru, one of the characters in Alejandro Zamb…
4 years, 1 month ago
Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime
In this special double episode we welcome dear friends of the bookshop Rachel Cusk and Siemon Scamell-Katz. First up is a conversation between Rachel…
4 years, 1 month ago
📘🎸Special Episode: Music for Ulysses with Alex Freiman🎸📘
In this special episode, we’re joined by Parisian jazz musician Alex Freiman, to discuss the process of composing the theme music for Friends of Shak…
4 years, 1 month ago
George Saunders on Reading Better, Writing Better, and Living Better
To mark the paperback release of George Saunders’s extraordinary reading and writing guide A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, we are delighted to release …
4 years, 1 month ago
Memory, Guilt and the Hunt for a Nazi Fugitive with Philippe Sands
One way Philippe Sands has described his extraordinary new book The Ratline is as “a sort of Nazi love story”. While there is certainly a love-story …
4 years, 1 month ago
Global Disorder and the road to war in Ukraine, with Helen Thompson
As its title suggests, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century is a book about the many and varied crises our world is facing. However by tracing th…
4 years, 2 months ago
On the Pleasures (and Pains) of Rereading, with Rob Doyle
We speak with novelist Rob Doyle about his new book Autobibliography in which he recounts a year spent rereading 52 books. Detailing the memories the…
4 years, 2 months ago
Dostoyevsky, the Parisian murderer, and the creation of a masterpiece, with Kevin Birmingham
In The Sinner and the Saint, Kevin Birmingham deftly unpicks the personal, societal, historical and philosophical forces that led Fyodor Dostoyeksky—…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bloomcast | Episode 3 | Aeolus and Lestrygonians
Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson, live from Shakespeare and …
4 years, 2 months ago
An insider’s history of Rock & Roll, with Lenny Kaye
This week we’re joined by the legendary guitarist, composer, record producer, writer, and founding member of Patti Smith and Her Band, Lenny Kaye to …
4 years, 2 months ago