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4d

Some of the best on here… go.bsky.app/VTTsXfq

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Sam Byers

@sambyers.bsky.social

4h

100% think this is a big factor. And once literature is established as a morally righteous activity, publishing establishes itself as the guardian of morality, only to, very inevitably, find itself again and again falling short of its own lofty standards.

Shakespeare and Company@shakespeareandcompany.com

Could part of the reason for this be that reading books—more than engagement with any other art form—has been reframed as an improving, morally righteous activity, rather than a medium to be engaged with on its own terms?

5d

One student, one continent-sized mushroom… It’s a battle as old as time!

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yalereview.orghttps://yalereview.org/article/guadalupe-nettel

1w

“When I felt a story rounding off, I took a piece out, because I really want readers to finish it themselves.” Guadalupe Nettel on resisting resolution, in the latest installment of our partnership with Shakespeare and Company. yalereview.org/article/guad...

2w

Whereas we all know it’s about a mother and daughter conspiring to uproot the patriarchy by refusing to do the domestic chores expected of them, and then tricking the clueless father into both believing a tiger was responsible for the mess and empty cupboards, and taking them out for dinner. ✊

Padraig Reidy@padraigreidy.bsky.social

I still think some of the greatest discourse ever on this site was when some Americans decided Tiger Who Came To Tea was a gritty representation of postwar deprivation in Britain

podcasts.apple.comThe End of Everything, with M. John HarrisonPodcast Episode · The Shakespeare and Company Interview · 8 July · 53min

4w

Leaving this here for all you bloody naysayers… (So happy for you, Mike!) podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

16 Sept

Rest in Power, Bonnie. We’ll miss you.

14 Sept

See you there!

Viet Thanh Nguyen@vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social

This is one of my favorite festivals. A great gathering of U.S. authors in Vincennes, on the edge of Paris. I'm speaking on seven (!) panels. More details in the link in bio.

podcasts.apple.comEditions - Episode 1 - Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes with Taìno MendezPodcast Episode · The Shakespeare and Company Interview · 27 May · 1hr 3min

26 July

For all those interested… podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

Caustic Cover Critic@causticcovercritic.bsky.social

Brittle comedy from 1965, skating over hidden depths of grief, loneliness and need, about a gay, black teenaged boy living with two mother figures outside Kalamazoo. Add frustrated sexuality, a conman 'psychic' and a pile of hidden resentments, and you get the darkest of farces.

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New York Review Books

@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

24 July

Amit Chaudhuri speaks with Adam Biles about writing about a being writer in Paris without being clichéd; also Hemingway, not noticing, and marriage. Chaudhuri's new book, Château Rouge, named after a "vibrant" neighborhood in Paris, comes out in the US next month. @shakespeareandcompany.com

shows.acast.comParis, Deconstructed: Amit Chaudhuri’s Château Rouge | The Shakespeare and Company Interview

22 July

Respect to our neighbour Eyrolles for including this little beauty in their Odyssey display…

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10 July

⚠️CHANGE TO ANNOUNCED TIME⚠️ Due to circumstances beyond our control the signing with Patti Smith will now take place this Sunday from 1:30PM - 2:30PM.

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Paris

10 July

⚠️CHANGE TO ANNOUNCED TIME⚠️ Due to circumstances beyond our control the signing with Patti Smith will now take place this Sunday from 1:30PM - 2:30PM.

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🎙️ NEW EPISODE: The End of Everything, with M. John Harrison Harrison joins us discuss his new novel, a disaster story set in a "wrong UK" where societal collapse meets an alien presence and its strange shape-shifting "artefacts." 🎧 pod.fo/e/44531b @serpents-tail.bsky.social

Paris

🎙️ NEW EPISODE: The End of Everything, with M. John Harrison Harrison joins us discuss his new novel, a disaster story set in a "wrong UK" where societal collapse meets an alien presence and its strange shape-shifting "artefacts." 🎧 pod.fo/e/44531b @serpents-tail.bsky.social

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pod.foFriends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce: BLOOMCAST: 🎬Ulysses Movie Watch-along Special🎬Recorded for Bloomsday 2026. If you're in Paris and it's still June 16th, join us between 2pm and 5pm at Shakespeare and Company, 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris.Find the film here: https://vimeo.co...

20 June

June 16 may have been and gone, but Bloomcast is forever, not just for Bloomsday! ICYMI here is our latest special: Lex and Adam (and you!) watch the 1967 adaptation of Ulysses together… pod.fo/e/431330

pod.foFriends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce: BLOOMCAST: 🎬Ulysses Movie Watch-along Special🎬Recorded for Bloomsday 2026. If you're in Paris and it's still June 16th, join us between 2pm and 5pm at Shakespeare and Company, 37 Rue de la Bûcherie, Paris.Find the film here: https://vimeo.co...

20 June

June 16 may have been and gone, but Bloomcast is forever, not just for Bloomsday! ICYMI here is our latest special: Lex and Adam (and you!) watch the 1967 adaptation of Ulysses together… pod.fo/e/431330

15 June

Just in time for 16 June, BLOOMCAST is back with a movie watch-along special! Discover the 1967 Ulysses film with Lex and Adam, their commentary in your ears, Milo O'Shea on your screen... 🎧: pod.fo/e/431330

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4 June

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

Shakespeare and Company@shakespeareandcompany.com

We're devastated to hear the news about Marjane Satrapi. She came to our festival in 2008 and was a pure force of nature. Wise, funny, engaging. This is a big loss. (Photo taken by Justin Westover during the festival)

4 June

"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it." What a star Marjane was...

Shakespeare and Company@shakespeareandcompany.com

We're devastated to hear the news about Marjane Satrapi. She came to our festival in 2008 and was a pure force of nature. Wise, funny, engaging. This is a big loss. (Photo taken by Justin Westover during the festival)

4 June

We're devastated to hear the news about Marjane Satrapi. She came to our festival in 2008 and was a pure force of nature. Wise, funny, engaging. This is a big loss. (Photo taken by Justin Westover during the festival)

3 June

One hundred years ago today, a baby was born with a HOWL! Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997). Poet, prophet, and one of the great friends of our bookshop. (Photo by Jack Hazzard from the Shakespeare and Company archives) @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

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Faber Books

@faberbooks.bsky.social

28 May

The first episode of our podcast with Shakespeare & Co is now available podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Adam Biles and Ella Griffiths are joined by novelist and performer Taìno Mendez to discuss Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke, the 20th title in the Faber Editions imprint.

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28 May

🎙️ It's here! Editions, a new podcast from us and @faberbooks.bsky.social, celebrating radical literary voices. It launches today with Henry Van Dyke's Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes (1965), featuring Taíno Mendez in conversation with Adam Biles & Ella Griffiths. 🎧https://pod.fo/e/4209d2

28 May

🎙️ It's here! Editions, a new podcast from us and @faberbooks.bsky.social, celebrating radical literary voices. It launches today with Henry Van Dyke's Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes (1965), featuring Taíno Mendez in conversation with Adam Biles & Ella Griffiths. 🎧https://pod.fo/e/4209d2

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yalereview.orgA Shakespeare and Company Interview: David Szalay on his novel “Flesh”Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses memory and masculinity with novelist David Szalay.

26 May

"Words struggle, in a way, to express some deep essence of our existence. They seem to slide off the surface all too often." David Szalay on the limits of language.

www.thebookseller.com/news/faber-t...

26 May

thebookseller.comFaber teams up with Shakespeare and Company on ‘landmark’ podcastFaber has teamed up with independent Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company on a "landmark" new podcast, Editions: A Shakespeare and Company x Faber Production.

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yalereview.orgA Shakespeare and Company Interview: Arundhati RoyShakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks to Arudhati Roy about her first memoir and her early life in India.

30 Apr

"This was not a book of discovery. It is a book of reportage of the heart." Arundhati Roy on Mother Mary Comes to Me, in our latest @shakespeareandcompany.com interview.

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

16 Apr

lemonde.frAntoine Gallimard, éditeur : « Notre solidarité avec Olivier Nora et ses auteurs doit être totale »TRIBUNE. Après le licenciement du PDG des éditions Grasset et l’annonce du départ de nombreux auteurs de la maison d’Hachette Livre, détenue par Vincent Bolloré, le directeur des éditions Gallimard af...

wired.comAmazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older KindlesIn an email to customers, Amazon announced that it would be ending service for Kindle devices older than the 2012 edition. Those devices will lose access to the Kindle Store.

9 Apr

On the other hand, the books we sell you will go on working pretty much forever… www.wired.com/story/amazon...

7 Apr

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2 Apr

Tonight, 7pm: Lea Ypi on Indignity: A Life Reimagined Free & open to all. Places limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/lea-y... #booksky

2 Apr

Tonight, 7pm: Lea Ypi on Indignity: A Life Reimagined Free & open to all. Places limited. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/lea-y... #booksky

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yalereview.orgA Shakespeare and Company Interview: David Szalay on his novel “Flesh”Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses memory and masculinity with novelist David Szalay.

6 Mar

David Szalay reflects on the elusive moral terrain of his Booker Prize–winning novel FLESH—and why, from the very beginning, he set out to express things "obliquely, because to express them directly was, in a way, beyond the power of words."

podcasts.apple.comBooker Prize Winner David Szalay on Agency, Violence, and RestraintPodcast Episode · The Shakespeare and Company Interview · 4 March · 49m

5 Mar

We’re delighted to share the latest in our collaboration with @yalereview.bsky.social And, if you prefer your interviews channelled directly into your ear holes, the podcast dropped today too. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

The Yale Review@yalereview.bsky.social

"The only starting point—and this is important—is the physical body, the physicality of existence." For our latest installment in partnership with Shakespeare and Company, David Szalay on his Booker Prize–winning novel FLESH.

yalereview.orgyalereview.org

4 Mar

Honestly, Davies is one of our most undervalued writers and whoever gets this trilogy is in for a treat.

Big Green Books@biggreenbooks.bsky.social

Another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you! @jajrobertson.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. If you'd like it, just get in touch. UK only

barbican.org.ukKarl Ove Knausgård, Glenn Kotche & Johan Renck: Historia | BarbicanAn joyous evening of words and sound that celebrates craft and friendship with writer Karl Ove Knausgård, musician Glenn Kotche and director Johan Renck, with a Q&A by literary critic Chris Power.

1 Mar

Blimey, London. Get to this!

Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social

Do London people know about this on Thursday? Sounds amazing @chrispower.bsky.social www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

24 Feb

It’s a good day when you hear that a new @kandasamy.bsky.social novel is on the way.

nytimes.comFrederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies

17 Feb

Goodbye to our dear friend, Fred Wiseman. What an oeuvre he leaves behind. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

17 Feb

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Ben Phillips@benphillips76.bsky.social

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

podcasts.apple.comDemocracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far RightPodcast Episode · The Shakespeare and Company Interview · 20/01/2025 · 48m

12 Feb

Feels like a good time to repost episode when the brilliant @salomesaque.bsky.social was a guest on our podcast. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/t...

Clémentine Goldszal@clementinegoldszal.bsky.social

Cette semaine dans ELLE, @salomesaque.bsky.social parle littérature. « Résister » vient de reparaître dans une version augmentée 📚🤓🔥

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10 Feb

Look what's happening at the bookshop tomorrow... 🤩 #booksky

10 Feb

Look what's happening at the bookshop tomorrow... 🤩 #booksky

6 Feb

Great news!

And Other Stories@andotherstories.bsky.social

We're over the book to announce that we'll be bringing three works by James Kelman back into print, starting with Kieron Smith, boy in June 2026 ✨

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