Shakespeare and Company
Summary: Recorded live from our bookshop, in the heart of Paris, conversations and readings with internationally acclaimed authors. Discover exciting new fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and delve into our archives for events with Zadie Smith, Eddie Izzard, Don DeLillo, Rebecca Solnit, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dave Eggers, Rachel Cusk, Marlon James, Edouard Louis, Sara Pascoe, Richard Powers, Sally Rooney and many, many more. Hosted by Adam Biles.
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Podcasts:
We were joined by Preti Taneja to discuss her reworking of King Lear set in modern-day India.
Philip Hoare joined us to discuss the astonishing RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR a portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.
We were joined by writer Denis Hirson and musician Steve Potts for an evening of poetry and jazz.
150 years after Canada’s confederation, we were joined by Granta magazine and three leading Canadian writers to celebrate ‘CanLit’ in all its many guises.
We were joined by Margo Berdeshevsky to launch her "marvelous, deeply humane collection" Before the Drought
We were joined by one of Spain’s most innovative fiction writers, Andrés Barba, for a reading from his deeply unsettling new work Such Small Hands.
For the first event of our Photobook Week 2017, and in association with Photo Saint Germain, Too Many Pictures and MACK Books, we were joined by Anne Golaz, who was in conversation with Michael Mack about her new book, Corbeau.
At the vanguard of experimental French fiction for years, Pierre Senges’s mind-blowing work is finally available to English readers. He joined us to read from and discuss his work, The Major Refutation.
To mark the French publication of Dog Run Moon: Stories by our friends at Albin Michel, we were joined by Callan Wink to discuss the collection that has seen him compared to Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf.
Poetry doesn’t come much more powerful than Aja Monet’s. She joined us to read this year’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter.
We were joined by Will Self to discuss the final instalment in “one of the most ambitious and important literary projects of the 21st century” (Observer), his new novel Phone.
To celebrate the 2017 Man Booker Prize-winner George Saunders we’ve prepared this special edition of our podcast, recorded during his visit to the bookshop in March 2017. To hear the full version of the podcast visit our events archive at www.shakespeareandcompany.com
We were joined by Booker Prizewinning novelist Alan Hollinghurst to discuss his magisterial new work The Sparsholt Affair.
We were joined by award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge to discuss Another Day in the Death of America, his powerful, moving and important book on the effect of gun crime on children in the US.
Nathan Hill’s The Nix was one of the most celebrated début novels of the last year. We found out why when he joined us at the bookstore.
