The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast.


Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles.


Discover all our upcoming events here.


If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here.


Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali Smith, Har Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Katie Kitamura, Elif Shafak, Claire-Louiose Bennett, Leïla Simoni, Ian Dunt, David Runciman, Richard Powers, Eimear McBride, Armando Iannucci, Lauren Grodd, Lauren Elkin, Recebcca Solnit, John Berger, Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen, Rob Doyle, Philippe Sands, George Saunders, Edouard Louis, Rachel Cusk, Preti Taneja, Alejandro Zambra, DBC Pierre, Meg Mason, Sandra Newman, David Simon, Joshua Cohen, Geoff Dyer, David Wallce-Wells, Emul Saint-John Mandel, Mohsin Hamid, Tess Gunty, A.M. Homes, John Higgs, Miriam Toews, Kamila Shamsie, Annie Ernaux, William Boyd, David Keenan, Jonathan Coe, Coco Mellors, Tom Mustill, Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Churchwell, Katy Hessel, Don Paterson, Elizabeth McCracken, Meena Kandasamy, Aleksandar Hemon, Catherine Lacey, Xiaolu Guo, M. John Harrison, Dolly Adderton, Hernan Diaz, Kathryn Scanlan, Ben Lerner, Isabel Waidner, Nick Laird, Adam Thirlwell, Mark O'Connell, Marie Darrieussecq, Jo Ann Beard, C Pam Zhang, Naomi Klein...and many, many more.



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Episode Date
Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn
Apr 10, 2024
On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale
Mar 27, 2024
Bidding adieu to Freeman’s literary journal, with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Deborah Landau, Juan Gabriel Vazquez, and John Freeman
Mar 13, 2024
On Friendship, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
Feb 29, 2024
Love in the Time of Creative-Writing Classes, with Brandon Taylor
Feb 14, 2024
Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects
Jan 31, 2024
☕Proust Questionnaire: Holly McNish & Michael Pedersen☕
Jan 17, 2024
BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD
Jan 05, 2024
😱On Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Adam Thirlwell😱
Jan 03, 2024
👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼
Dec 20, 2023
Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland
Dec 06, 2023
🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘
Nov 22, 2023
🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕
Nov 08, 2023
👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️
Oct 25, 2023
⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵
Oct 11, 2023
🛏️On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq🛏️
Sep 28, 2023
🐖On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.🐖
Sep 14, 2023
💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎
Sep 09, 2023
🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠
Aug 30, 2023
🗞️On Power, Pamphlets, Parties and Possible Worlds, with Adam Thirlwell🗞️
Aug 16, 2023
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
Aug 02, 2023
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
Jul 22, 2023
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
Jul 19, 2023
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
Jul 13, 2023
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
Jun 27, 2023
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
Jun 15, 2023
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
Jun 13, 2023
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
Jun 07, 2023
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
Jun 01, 2023
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
May 22, 2023
On Anti-Memoir, the Weird, and New Kinds of Disaster, with M. John Harrison
May 22, 2023
On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo
May 04, 2023
How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt
Apr 17, 2023
✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
Apr 05, 2023
📚How to Resist Amazon and Why, with Danny Caine📚
Mar 22, 2023
On Old Wounds, Finding Peace, and Returning Home, with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Mar 08, 2023
🗺️On Sarajevo, Multiple Worlds and History at the Fringes, with Aleksandar Hemon🗺️
Feb 22, 2023
❤️‍🔥Valentine’s Special: Meena Kandasamy on The Book of Desire❤️‍🔥
Feb 08, 2023
On Parents, Grief and the difference between Fiction and Memoir, with Elizabeth McCracken
Jan 25, 2023
🎸Music, Sugar and other Obsessions, with Don Paterson🎸
Jan 11, 2023
📚Books of the Year📚
Dec 28, 2022
👩‍🎨Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men👩‍🎨
Dec 21, 2022
📘BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL📘
Dec 15, 2022
🔥Sarah Churchwell on Gone with the Wind, January 6th, and the Lies America Tells🔥
Dec 07, 2022
🔔Hunchback of Notre-Dame Special! 🔔
Dec 02, 2022
🐋How to Speak to Whales (and other animals…) with Tom Mustill🐋
Nov 24, 2022
💋On Love, Loss and Life in New York, with Coco Mellors💋
Nov 16, 2022
On Writing the Queer, Indigenous Experience with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Nov 09, 2022
🍫Jonathan Coe on Bournville🍫
Nov 02, 2022
🍄Psychedelic Storytelling, DIY Magick, and the New Masculinity, with David Keenan🍄
Oct 26, 2022
🥊 Miriam Toews on Sweary Matriarchs, the Absurdity of Life, and the Human Imperative to Experience Joy🥊
Oct 20, 2022
🎤 Sunday Poetry: Mark Polizzotti reads his new translations of Arthur Rimbaud🎤
Oct 15, 2022
🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈
Oct 12, 2022
🏅BONUS: Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize in Literature🏅
Oct 07, 2022
🐴💰On Friendship and Redemption in the time of the Gold Rush, with Paddy Crewe💰🐴
Oct 05, 2022
👭🏽On Friendship, Politics and when the Two Collide, with Kamila Shamsie👭🏽
Sep 28, 2022
🎸🤵‍♂️The Beatles, James Bond and the British Psyche ,with John Higgs🤵‍♂️🎸
Sep 21, 2022
🎤 Sunday Poetry: Tayi Tibble reads from Poūkahangatus🎤
Sep 17, 2022
🎹Ian McEwan on Lessons🎹
Sep 14, 2022
🇺🇸 A.M. Homes on Satire, the American Dream, and Reaching Across the Political Divide🇺🇸
Sep 07, 2022
🐇On Transcendence, Parental Failure & writing Indiana, with Tess Gunty🐇
Aug 31, 2022
☭🎩When Young Stalin came to London, with Stephen May🎩☭
Aug 24, 2022
After Sappho, with Selby Wynn Schwartz
Aug 17, 2022
👨🏼✨Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man✨👨🏾
Aug 10, 2022
⏳Time Travel, Autofiction & Never-ending Book Tours, with Emily St John Mandel⌛
Aug 03, 2022
🎓😵‍💫Disorientation: A Wild Satire of 21st-Century Campus Life, with Elaine Hsieh Chou😵‍💫🎓
Jul 27, 2022
🇬🇧🔨How Britain Broke the World, with Arthur Snell🔨🇬🇧
Jul 20, 2022
🎾Geoff Dyer on Roger Federer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sensing an Ending…🎾
Jul 13, 2022
👨‍❤️‍👨On Love, Grief and Male Friendship, with Michael Pedersen👨‍❤️‍👨
Jul 06, 2022
🎙️🍃Ali Smith on Companion Piece (live in the bookshop!)🍃🎙️
Jun 29, 2022
🐑Ottessa Moshfegh on Power, Magic…and her Pirate Ancestors🐑
Jun 22, 2022
🥀On Darkness, Fables and Heartbreak, with Vanessa Onwuemezi🥀
Jun 15, 2022
A World Without Men, with Sandra Newman (Live at Hey Festival)
Jun 08, 2022
On Bodies, Freedom and Change, with Olivia Laing
May 25, 2022
Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss
May 18, 2022
📱Love (and Life) in the time of Algorithms, with Jem Calder📱
May 11, 2022
🐍🎲Luck, Life and Little Snakes, with DBC Pierre🎲🐍
May 04, 2022
On imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo Jefferson
Apr 27, 2022
On Prison, Literature and Grief with Preti Taneja
Apr 20, 2022
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
Apr 13, 2022
Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime
Apr 06, 2022
📘🎸Special Episode: Music for Ulysses with Alex Freiman🎸📘
Apr 01, 2022
George Saunders on Reading Better, Writing Better, and Living Better
Mar 30, 2022
Memory, Guilt and the Hunt for a Nazi Fugitive with Philippe Sands
Mar 23, 2022
Global Disorder and the road to war in Ukraine, with Helen Thompson
Mar 16, 2022
On the Pleasures (and Pains) of Rereading, with Rob Doyle
Mar 09, 2022
Dostoyevsky, the Parisian murderer, and the creation of a masterpiece, with Kevin Birmingham
Mar 02, 2022
An insider’s history of Rock & Roll, with Lenny Kaye
Feb 23, 2022
Poetry, class, and radical performance, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen
Feb 16, 2022
** Valentine's Special ** Love, Language and London with Xiaolu Guo
Feb 10, 2022
Comedy and the Culture Wars, with Andrew Hankinson
Feb 03, 2022
Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
Jan 29, 2022
Nadifa Mohamed on The Fortune Men
Jan 27, 2022
Introducing Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses
Jan 20, 2022
Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses
Jan 20, 2022
A Parisian bus ride with Lauren Elkin
Jan 13, 2022
Claire Messud on A Dream Life
Dec 30, 2021
BONUS: Cerys Matthews reads A Child's Christmas in Wales, by Dylan Thomas
Dec 24, 2021
Sarah Hall on Burntcoat
Dec 23, 2021
Welcome to Shakespeare and Company: Writers, Books and Paris
Dec 16, 2021
Aysegül Savas on White on White
Dec 16, 2021
Philip Hoare on Albert & the Whale
Dec 09, 2021
Lauren Groff on Matrix
Dec 02, 2021
Poets Richard Barnett and Luke Kennard in conversation
Nov 25, 2021
Katharina Volckmer on The Appointment
Nov 18, 2021
Armando Iannucci on Pandemonium
Nov 10, 2021
Eimear McBride on Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust
Nov 04, 2021
Richard Powers on Bewilderment
Oct 27, 2021
BONUS PODCAST* Poetry from Archipelago Books
Oct 23, 2021
David Runciman on Confronting Leviathan
Oct 20, 2021
Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North
Oct 13, 2021
Ian Dunt on How to Be a Liberal
Oct 06, 2021
Leïla Slimani on The Country of Others
Sep 29, 2021
Tom McCarthy on The Making of Incarnation
Sep 22, 2021
Claire-Louise Bennett on Checkout 19
Sep 15, 2021
David Keenan on Monument Maker
Sep 08, 2021
Elif Shafak on The Island of Missing Trees
Sep 01, 2021
Pola Oloixarac and John Freeman, in conversation
Aug 12, 2021
Katie Kitamura on Intimacies
Aug 05, 2021
Jakuta Alikavazovic on Night As It Falls
Jul 28, 2021
Laurent Binet on Civilisations
Jul 21, 2021
Eliot Higgins on We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People
Jul 14, 2021
Pragya Agarwal on (M)otherhood
Jul 07, 2021
Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan on Francis Bacon: Revelations
Jun 30, 2021
Jennifer Lucy Allan on The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
Jun 23, 2021
Hari Kunzru on Red Pill
Jun 16, 2021
Rob Doyle and Rachel Kushner in conversation
Jun 10, 2021
Niven Govinden & Musa Okwonga in conversation
May 27, 2021
Ece Temelkuran on Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now
May 13, 2021
Rosa Rankin-Gee on Dreamland
May 06, 2021
Jenni Fagan and Salena Godden in conversation with Adam Biles
Apr 29, 2021
An extract from Pond, read by Claire-Louise Bennett
Sep 17, 2020
Renga through a Lockdown with Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr
Aug 04, 2020
Lindsey Tramuta on The New Parisienne
Jul 17, 2020
John Freeman reads from The Park
Jun 01, 2020