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🐑Ottessa Moshfegh on Power, Magic…and her Pirate Ancestors🐑
Lapvona, Ottessa Moshfegh’s extraordinary fourth novel, unfolds in a medieval fiefdom of the same name. It’s a story of struggle in a world in which one human wields absolute power over another, but in which all must submit to a Nature that … -
🥀On Darkness, Fables and Heartbreak, with Vanessa Onwuemezi🥀
A collection of seven extraordinary short stories, Vanessa Onwuemezi’s Dark Neighbourhood resists interpretation and elides description, shifting between voices and styles with astonishing deftness and grace. Spaces and territories are impor… -
A World Without Men, with Sandra Newman (Live at Hey Festival)
In this special live episode, recorded at the Hay Festival, we were joined by Sandra Newman, whose new novel The Men takes a very stark idea and runs with it. What would happen, to the world, to society, to minds, if one day all the Men, and… -
On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing
This week, we’re joined by Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers at work today, to discuss her latest book Everybody: A Book About Freedom.Buy Everybody here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/978… -
Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss
This week’s guest is Meg Mason, author of 2022’s literary sensation Sorrow and Bliss.*'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved. It is also impossible not to laugh out lou… -
📱Love (and Life) in the time of Algorithms, with Jem Calder📱
This week’s guest is guest is Jem Calder, author of Reward System a series of interlinked stories that charts a group of friends in their mid-twenties as they struggle to make something of their lives in an indifferent, often hostile, 21st c… -
🐍🎲Luck, Life and Little Snakes, with DBC Pierre🎲🐍
DBC Pierre’s Big Snake Little Snake is a characteristically freewheeling, riotous account of a couple of years the author lived in the Caribbean, spending his time, among other endeavours, conducting an inquiry into risk. It’s&… -
On imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo Jefferson
Despite being a lauded writer and critic, despite being the winner of a Pulitzer Prize even, Margo Jefferson innovates and takes risks like a writer with nothing to lose. Her new book, Constructing a Nervous System is both the history of a m… -
On Prison, Literature and Grief with Preti Taneja
On 29 November 2019, Usman Kahn attacked and killed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers Hall in London, and was later shot dead by police on London Bridge. Jones and Merritt were involved in a prison education programm… -
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro ZambraWhat is a Chilean Poet? According to Pru, one of the characters in Alejandro Zambra’s latest novel, ‘Being a Chilea…
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