Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce

Pages 525 - 532 │ Oxen of the Sun, part IV │ Read by Stephen Fry Writer, actor, broadcaster, that sort of thing www.stephenfry.com Follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/stephenfry Follow on Instagram: www.instagram.com:stephenfryactually * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES All episod...

Pages 515 - 525 │ Oxen of the Sun, part III │ Read by Chloe Aridjis Chloe Aridjis is the author of three novels, Book of Clouds, which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder, set in London's National Gallery, and Sea Monsters, which was awarded the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Chloe has written for various art journals and was guest curator of the Leonora Carrington exhi...

Pages 507 - 515 │ Oxen of the Sun, part II │ Read by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, his most recent novel and the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two stor...

Pages 499 - 507 │ Oxen of the Sun, part I │ Read by Ben Okri Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria. His childhood was divided between Nigeria, where he saw first hand the consequences of war, and London. He has won many prizes over the years for his fiction, and is also an acclaimed essayist, playwright, and poet. In 2019 Astonishing the Gods was named as one of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our...

Pages 494 - 499 │ Nausicaa, part VI │ Read by Patrick Hastings Patrick Hastings is the English Department Chair at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, where he lives with his wife, Martha, and his three young sons, Pierce, Bradley and Renwick. He is the author of The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses and the creator of UlyssesGuide.com. He attended Washington & Lee University and received his M...

Pages 488 - 494 │ Nausicaa, part V │ Read by Lesley Blume Lesley M. M. Blume is a journalist, historian, and a New York Times best selling author, most recently of ‘ Fallout : The Hiroshima Cover - up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World ,’ and ‘ Everybody Behaves Badly : The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises.’ She is formerly the literary executor of Sylvia Bea...

Pages 482 - 488 │ Nausicaa, part IV │ Read by Keri Walsh Keri Walsh is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is the editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach (Columbia UP, 2010), Joyce's Dubliners (Broadview, 2016) and Joyce's Exiles (Oxford World's Classics, 2020) as well as the co-editor of the academic journal Joyce Stud...

Pages 468 - 482 │ Nausicaa, part III │ Read by Ali Smith Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Buy Companion Piece here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780241541340/companion-piece-the-new-novel-from-the-booker-shortlisted-author-of-how-to-be-both * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: htt...

Pages 459 - 468 │ Nausicaa, part II │ Read by Katie Kitamura Katie Kitamura most recent novel is Intimacies. Longlisted for the National Book Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, it was one of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2021 and one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. Her previous novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. S...

Pages 449 - 459 │ Nausicaa, part I │ Read by Olivia Laing Olivia Laing is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City. In 2018 she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her first novel, Crudo, won the James Tait Black Prize. She’s written catalogue essays on many contemporary artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Derek Jarman and Wolfgang Tillm...

Pages 439 - 449 │ Cyclops, part VII │ Read by Sarah Churchwell Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her books include Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Behold, America: A History of America First and the Ame...

Pages 433 - 439 │ Cyclops, part VI │ Read by Lenny Kaye Lenny Kaye is an American guitarist, composer, record producer, and writer, and is a founding member of Patti Smith and Her Band. In 2011 he was awarded the honor Chevalier de l"order des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture of France. His compilation of Nuggets: Original Artifacts From the First Psychedelic Era is credited wit...

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 Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in 1922.    In episode six, they discuss the obscenity trial that got Ulysses banned from...

Sylvia Whitman and David Delannet run Shakespeare and Company, Paris. www.shakespeareandcompany.com * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES All episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribi...

Pages 407 - 419 │ Cyclops, part IV │ Read by Marcel Theroux Marcel Theroux is the author of Far North, Strange Bodies, and The Secret Books. His new novel The Sorcerer of Pyongyang will be published in Summer 2022.  Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therouvian thisworldofdew.com * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company SUBSCRI...

Pages 396 - 407 │ Cyclops, part III │ Read by Mark O’Connell Mark O'Connell is the author of Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and The New York Re...

Pages 387 - 396 │ Cyclops, part II │ Read by Katharina Volckmer Katharina Volckmer was born in Germany in 1987. She lives in London, where she works for a literary agency. The Appointment is her first novel. Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/frauvolckmer Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frauvolckmer/ Buy The Appointment here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781913097325/the...

Pages 376 - 387 │ Cyclops, part I │ Read by DBC Pierre Booker Prize-winning novelist dreaming of future works and a patch of warm flooring at Shakespeare & Co. www.dbcpierre.com Buy Meanwhile in Dopamine City here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571228959/meanwhile-in-dopamine-city-shortlisted-for-the-goldsmiths-prize-2020 * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https...

Pages 370 - 376 │ Sirens, part VII │ Read by Cerys Matthews Cerys is a musician, author, broadcaster ( BBC radio 2, 6, 4) and former member of multi-million selling band Catatonia. She has narrated Dylan Thomas’s 'A Child's Christmas' to music she also composed and  recently featured alongside Benjamin Zephaniah and Guy Garvey for the acclaimed 'The Lost Words' project. Cerys record...

Pages 365 - 370 │ Sirens, part VI│ Read by Karthika Naïr Poet, fabulist and librettist, Karthika Naïr is the author of several books including the award-winning Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata. Her latest is the collaborative A Different Distance (Milkweed Editions, 2021), renga written with American poet Marilyn Hacker. The performances she has scripted and co-scripted have been stag...

Pages 358 - 365 │ Sirens, part V│ Read by Deborah Landau Deborah Landau is the author of five books of poetry including Soft Targets and Skeletons (forthcoming ‘23). Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, and she has received The Believer Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a professor at NYU, where...

Pages 350 - 358 │ Sirens, part IV│ Read by Philip Hoare Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of non-fiction. His Leviathan or, The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. His latest book is Albert & the Whale. He is professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton and is co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the digital projectshttps://www.mobydickbigread.c...

Pages 344 - 350 │ Sirens, part III │ Read by Keith Ridgway Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London and the author of A Shock, Hawthorn & Child, Animals, and others.  Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rid9way Buy A Shock here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781529064810/a-shock * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-co...

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 Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/ * L...

Pages 336 - 344│Sirens, part II│Read by Eimear McBride Eimear McBride is the author of three novels: Strange Hotel, The Lesser Bohemians and A Girl is a Half-formed Thing. The extended essay, Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust, is her most recent work. She is a recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and held the inaugural cre...