Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce

Pages 164 - 171 │Aeolus, part III│Read by Aleksandar Hemon Aleksandar Hemon writes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplays. He teaches at Princeton University, He produces music as Cielo Hemon. He is a Ulysses fiend. Buy My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781529038460/my-parents-an-introduction-this-does-not-belong-to-you Follow on...

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 three in they skip through main plot points of Aeolus and Lestrygo...

Pages 155 - 164 │ Aeolus, part II │ Read by Claire-Louise Bennett Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, Fish Out of Water, and Checkout 19.  Buy Checkout 19 here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9781787333550/checkout-19 * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES All epis...

Pages 147 - 155 │Aeolus, part I│Read by Patrick Marber Born in London, 1964. Playwright and Director. Work includes: 'Dealer's Choice 'Closer' 'Don Juan in Soho' 'The Red Lion' 'Notes on a Scandal' 'Travesties' 'Leopoldstadt' Follow on Twitter: @Pmarber Buy Patrick Marber’s Five Plays here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571346806/patrick-marber-plays-dealers-choice-closer-howard-katz-don...

Pages 141 - 147 │Hades, part V│Read by Erica Wagner  Erica Wagner’s latest book is Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge, winner of the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award. She was the literary editor of the London Times for seventeen years and is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and consulting literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar; she...

Pages 132 - 141 │Hades, part IV│Read by Chigozie Obioma Chigozie Obioma is a Nigerian writer whose two novels The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities have been finalists for the Booker prize and won numerous prizes. His work has been translated into more than 29 languages and adapted to stage. He is an Associate Professor of English at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Buy An Orchestra of Minor...

Pages 124 - 132 │Hades, part III│Read by Amy Sackville Amy Sackville's most recent novel is Painter to the King (Granta). She lives in London and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent. Buy Painter to the King: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781783783922/painter-to-the-king Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amysackville * Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here...

Pages 116 - 124 │Hades, part II│Read by Richard Barnett Richard Barnett is a historian and a poet. He taught at Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, and other leading institutions for more than a decade, and his essays have appeared in many places, from the Lancet and the London Review of Books to Strange Attractor and the Natural Death Handbook. His books include Medical London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week...

Pages 107 - 116 │Hades, part I│Read by Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker is the author of seventeen books, among them The Mezzanine, Human Smoke, and The Anthologist. His latest book, Baseless: My Search for Secrets Among the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act, was published in 2020. He has received a National Book Critics Circle award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, and the Herm...

Pages 103 - 107 │Lotus Eaters, part III│Read by Jarred McGinnis Jarred McGinnis’ debut novel ‘The Coward’ is published by Canongate in the UK in 2021 and the US in April 2022. He was recently chosen as one of the UK’s ten best emerging writers by the Guardian. He also has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, but mostly he inspires the able-bodied by using public transport and taking his daughters to...

Pages 94 - 103 │Lotus Eaters, part II│Read by Kate Stables Kate Stables, a Paris resident for sixteen years, is perhaps better known fronting her band thisisthekit. About 12 years ago she also started doing children's music and stories at Shakespeare and Company on the occasional Wednesday afternoon.  This Is The Kit is the musical project of Paris-based, British musician Kate Stables along w...

Pages 85-94 │Lotus Eaters, part I│Read by Joe Dunthorne  Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels: Submarine, Wild Abandon and The Adulterants. His first collection of poems, O Positive, was published by Faber in 2019. Buy O Positive here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571342556/o-positive joedunthorne.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter....

  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 two, your hosts provide zippy overviews of Calypso, Lotus E...

Pages 79 - 85 │ Calypso, part III │ Read by Nathan Englander Nathan Englander is the author of the novels The Ministry of Special Cases, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, and kaddish.com, and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an international best seller, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and...

Pages 74 - 79 │Calypso, part II│Read by Lola Peploe Lola Peploe is an actress ,writer, and film-maker who lives in Normandy. Her short film No.27 was shown at several International Festivals and her feature Documentary "Grandmother's Footsteps" is now in Post- Production.  * SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES All episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to every...

Pages 65 - 74 │Calypso, part I│Read by Eddie Izzard As a dramatic actor, Eddie picked up a Tony nomination for best actor in 2003 for her performance in A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg on Broadway. She was seen recently acting alongside Dame Judi Dench, playing Edward VII to Judi’s Queen Victoria, in Stephen Frears’ Victoria & Abdul.  Eddie is also one of the most challenging and respected...

Pages 55 - 65 │Proteus, part II│Read by Caoilinn Hughes Caoilinn Hughes’ latest novel, The Wild Laughter (Oneworld 2020) won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award, and was a finalist for four other prizes. Her first novel, ORCHID & THE WASP (Oneworld 2018) won the Collyer Bristow Prize. Her poetry collection, GATHERING EVIDENCE (Carcanet 2014) won The Irish Times Strong/Shine Award. H...

Pages 45 - 55 │Proteus, part I│Read by Ishion Hutchinson Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica.  Buy his collection Far District here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571369201/far-district Read his poem Little Music here: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/little-music-ishion-hutchinson/ Find out more about Ishion Hutchinson here: www.ishionhutchinson.com Follow him on...

Pages 35 - 45 │Nestor, part II│Read by Paul Murray Paul Murray is the author of three novels, including Skippy Dies and the Mark and the Void, with a fourth to be published in 2023. He lives in Dublin. Buy The Mark and the Void here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780241953860/the-mark-and-the-void * SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES All episodes of our Ulysses podcast are...

Pages 28 - 35 │Nestor, part I│Read by Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including The Passion, Written on the Body, The Gap of Time, and—most recently, Frankissstein, have also received international acclaim, as has her nonfiction writing. She holds an Officer of the Order of the...

Pages 1 - 28 │Telemachus│Read by Will Self Will Self is a writer. He lives in London. Find out more about Will Self here: www.will-self.com Buy Will Self’s novel Umbrella here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781408831670/umbrella * 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 t...

Bloomcast │Episode 1│Telemachus, Nestor, and Proteus   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.    Voilà! Here is ep...

In anticipation of the first episode of Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses this Wednesday, we were delighted to talk to former S&Co tumbleweed Patrick Hastings, and the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, about The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses, his essential companion to this modernist classic. Buy The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/97814214434...

2nd February - 16th June 2022 933 Pages, 110 readers, (roughly) 70 characters, 18 Sections, 5 months, 1 book. Friends of Shakespeare and Company read ULYSSES by James Joyce To listen, subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. Friends of Shakespeare and Company read ULYSSES is conceived and produced at Shakespeare and Company in Paris by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles in collaboration wi...