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Poetry, class, and radical performance, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
Back in November, Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen dropped by the bookshop for a reading and a chat. The conversation touched on poetry, class, ada…
4 years, 3 months ago
** Valentine's Special ** Love, Language and London with Xiaolu Guo
For the Valentine’s week episode of our podcast, we were joined by Xiaolu Guo to discuss her intense, fragmentary meditation on the nature of love, A…
4 years, 3 months ago
Comedy and the Culture Wars, with Andrew Hankinson
This week’s guest is Andrew Hankinson, author of the brilliant Don't applaud. Either laugh or don't. (At the Comedy Cellar.), a book about three thin…
4 years, 3 months ago
Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
In anticipation of the first episode of Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses this Wednesday, we were delighted to talk to former S&Co tumb…
4 years, 3 months ago
Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men
This week’s guest is Booker-shortlisted Nadifa Mohamed discussing The Fortune Men a gripping fictional portrayal of a real miscarriage of justice in …
4 years, 3 months ago
Introducing Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses
2nd February - 16th June 2022
933 Pages, 110 readers, (roughly) 70 characters, 18 Sections, 5 months, 1 book. 100 years.
Friends of Shakespeare and Com…
4 years, 4 months ago
Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses
Our guest this week is the wonderful Rebecca Solnit discussing Orwell’s Roses, her fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political w…
4 years, 4 months ago
A Parisian bus ride with Lauren Elkin
For our first podcast of 2022 we leave the bookshop and take to the buses of Paris for a conversation with Lauren Elkin, author of No. 91/92: notes o…
4 years, 4 months ago
Claire Messud on A Dream Life
This week we’re joined by Claire Messud to discuss A Dream Life, her drily funny, deeply perceptive story about displacement, and class, and social c…
4 years, 4 months ago
Claire Messud on A Dream Life
This week we’re joined by Claire Messud to discuss A Dream Life, her drily funny, deeply perceptive story about displacement, and class, and social c…
4 years, 4 months ago