Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce

Pages 328 - 336│Sirens, part I│Read by Max Porter Max Porter is the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Lanny and The Death of Francis Bacon Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maxjohnporter Buy The Death of Francis Bacon here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571370702/the-death-of-francis-bacon * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shake...

Pages 322 - 328│Wandering Rocks, part VII│Read by Sigrid Rausing Sigrid Rausing is the Publisher of Granta Publications and the Editor of Granta Magazine. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London, and her first book, History, Memory and Identity in Post Soviet Estonia: the End of a Collective Farm, was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press. In 2015 her second...

Pages 316 - 322 │Wandering Rocks part VI│Read by John Mitchinson John Mitchinson is a writer and publisher and co-founder of Unbound (www.unbound.com), the crowdfunding platform for books and co-host of Backlisted (www.backlisted.fm), one of the UK’s most popular books podcasts. He helped create the BBC TV show QI (www.qi.com) and co-wrote the bestselling series of QI books. Before that he he...

Pages 310 - 316 │Wandering Rocks, part V│Read by John Butler John Butler is a writer and director of film and television. In 2021, he directed and wrote on The Outlaws with Christopher Walken and Stephen Merchant for BBC / Amazon, and before that, wrote and directed Papi Chulo starring Matt Bomer, Handsome Devil starring Andrew Scott, and The Stag. He's also the author of a novel called The Tender...

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 five, Lex regales the group with song as he unpicks the musicality...

Pages 302 - 310 │Wandering Rocks, part IV│Read by Daniel Levin Becker Daniel Levin Becker is, most recently, the author of What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language (City Lights, 2022); the translator of Eduardo Berti's An Ideal Presence (Fern Books, 2021); and the editor of Dear McSweeney's: Two Decades of Letters to the Editor from Writers, Readers, and the Occasional Bewildered Consumer (McSweeney...

Pages 293 - 302 │Wandering Rocks, part III│Read by Aysegul Savas Ayşegül Savaş is the author of the novels Walking on the Ceiling and White on White. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta, among other publications. She lives in Paris.   www.aysegulsavas.com Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_aysegulsavas_ * Looking for our author interview podca...

Pages 288 - 293 │Wandering Rocks, part II│Read by John Freeman  John Freeman founded and edits the literary annual Freeman's, the current theme to which is change. He is also the author and editor of a dozen books including The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, Dictionary of the Undoing, and The Park. His latest book, Wind, Trees, a collection of poems, will be published in the...

Pages 280 - 288 │Wandering Rocks, part I│Read by Nicole Flattery Nicole Flattery's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Stinging Fly, the White Review and the London Review of Books, amongst others. She is the winner of the White Review Prize 2017. Her story collection 'Show Them A Good Time' was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. Her novel 'Nothing Special' is forthcoming.  * Looking f...

Pages 274 - 280 │Scylla & Charybdis, part VI│Read by Sophie Gorman  Sophie Gorman is an Irish journalist living in Paris. Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieTheGorman * 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...

  Pages 269 - 274 │Scylla & Charybdis, part V│Read by Luke Kennard Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist who lectures at the University of Birmingham. His fifth collection, Notes on the Sonnets, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021. Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LukeKennard * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and...

Pages 261 - 269 │Scylla & Charybdis, part IV│Read by Sinéad Gleeson Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She is the editor of The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of...

Pages 252 - 261 │Scylla & Charybdis, part III│Read by Salena Godden  Salena Godden is a poet, performer, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist. She has published several volumes of poetry, including Pessimism is for Lightweights; a literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road; and a novel, Mrs Death Misses Death, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize in 2021. In November 2020 she w...

Pages 243 - 252 │Scylla & Charybdis, part II│Read by Preti Taneja Preti Taneja is a writer and activist, and Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University, UK. Her debut novel WE THAT ARE YOUNG won the UK's 2018 Desmond Elliott Prize and was internationally acclaimed with listings for the Folio Prize, the Shakti Bhatt first book prize and Europe’s premier award for...

Pages 235 - 243 │Scylla & Charybdis, part I│Read by Andy Miller Andy Miller is a reader, editor and author of books, most recently The Year of Reading Dangerously (4th Estate/HarperPerennial). He has also written books about how much he likes the Kinks and how much he dislikes sport. He is the co-host of Backlisted, the literary podcast that gives new life to old books - 1m downloads in 2021....

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 four they begin by responding to a listener’s request to cast the...

Pages 227 - 234 │Lestrygonians, part VI│Read by Conor Horgan Conor Horgan trained as a photographer before moving into writing and directing film. His first feature film One Hundred Mornings garnered acclaim and awards around the world. His most recent film is The Queen of Ireland, a documentary about Irish national treasure Panti Bliss in the run-up to the marriage equality referendum, which brok...

Pages 217 - 227 │Lestrygonians, part V│Read by Andrew Hankinson Andrew Hankinson is a freelance journalist and author in Newcastle upon Tyne. His two books are: 'Don't applaud. Either laugh or don't. (At the Comedy Cellar.)'; and 'You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat].  Buy Don't applaud. Either laugh or don't. (At the Comedy Cellar.) here: https://shakespeareandc...

Pages 211 - 217 │Lestrygonians, part IV│Read by Lauren Elkin Lauren Elkin is the author of No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute (Semiotext(e)/Les Fugitives) and Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (Chatto), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also the UK translator of Simon...

Pages 204 - 211 │ Lestrygonians, part III │ Read by Ciaran Farrell Ciaran Farrell is a former employee of Shakespeare and Company and current resident of Lower Drumcondra where, as Joyce correctly pointed out, "they speak the best English". He is, when he finds the time, a PhD student of Irish Jacobites in Paris Nanterre Université * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://p...

Pages 196 - 204 │Lestrygonians, part II│Read by Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey is a novelist. Buy Pew here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781783785193/pew Www.catherinelacey.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_catherinelacey Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catherinelacey_ * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-c...

Pages 190 - 196 │Lestrygonians, part I│Read by Adam Thirlwell Adam Thirlwell, born in 1978, is a novelist and essayist. His work has been translated into 30 languages. His essays appear in the NYRB and LRB; and he is an Advisory Editor of the Paris Review. His awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fello...

Pages 185 - 189 │Aeolus, part VI│Read by Holly Pester Holly Pester is a poet and writer. She has worked in sound art and performance, with BBC Radio, Women’s Art Library and Wellcome Collection. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Essex.  Buy Comic Timing here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781783786862/comic-timing Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollype...

Pages 178 - 185 │Aeolus, part V│Read by Cressida Brown Cress was awarded the National Theatre Studio’s Bulldog prinsep bursary in 2007. She directed Macbeth for Shakespeare and Company in 2017. Work she is most proud of includes : Amphibians by Steve Water, inspired by interviews she conducted with former Olympic swimmers about ‘legacy’ in the run up to the 2012 Olympic games and staged in the der...

Pages 171 - 178 │Aeolus, part IV │ Read by Ryan Van Winkle Ryan Van Winkle is an author, artist and producer based in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. He is currently Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh and the Schools Writer in Residence for the Citizen project at the Edinburgh International Book Fes...