Podcast Episodes

💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎

Buy Emerald Wounds: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/emerald-wounds

Joyce Mansour was a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt whose fierce, macabr…

2 years, 9 months ago

🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠

Mark O’Connell’s new book A Thread of Violence is the writer’s attempt to understand Malcolm MacArthur, the figure at the centre of one of Ireland’s …

2 years, 9 months ago

🗞️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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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