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Episodes: 209
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.7/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: USA
YouTube: 8.3k subscribers
Instagram: 230.0k followers
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Host
Adam Biles - Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company (Paris). Hosts long-form author conversations centered on craft, ideas, and the political/cultural dimensions of writing.
Ella Griffiths - Faber’s Head of Classics & Heritage. Co-hosts for the “Editions” segment, bringing editorial and imprint-specific expertise around selected Faber titles and their literary context.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Tano Mendez - A Newly Published/heritage Reissue Title And Its Themes; Writing Against Expectation; Race And Queerness; Archives, Ethics, And Literary Influences.
Lea Ypi - Dignity, Memory, Archives, And Ethics Of Mixing Biography And Fiction; Hope And Historical/political Interpretation.
Arundhati Roy - Writing A Novelist’s Memoir; Memory Vs Imagination; Identity Shaped By Contradiction; Family, Activism, And Chosen Community.
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Episodes
BLOOMCAST: 🎬Ulysses Movie Watch-along Special🎬
June 15, 2026
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.com/408613317https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7xAM_eXuukAdam Biles and Lex Paulson reunite after an eighteen-month hiatus for a live commentary on the 1967 Joseph Strick film adaptation of Ulysses. They discuss Joyce's real-life role launching Dublin's first cinema, the film's scandalous festival h...
Fear Less: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry in Perilous Times
June 10, 2026
Tracy K. Smith comes to Shakespeare and Company for a conversation with Adam Biles. They discuss her book Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times, a bold manifesto on poetry as a tool for deeper living, clearer thinking, and more compassionate citizenship. Drawing on her time as US Poet Laureate, Smith reflects on taking poetry to rural America, and how poems, unlike political debate, can open rather than entrench. She talks about the origins of Fear Less, and why she chose to write a love letter...
Editions - Episode 1 - Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes with Taìno Mendez
May 27, 2026
In the debut episode of Editions, a podcast from Shakespeare and Company and Faber, literary director Adam Biles and Faber Editions curator Ella Griffiths are joined by novelist and performer Taìno Mendez to discuss Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke, the twentieth title in the Faber Editions imprint.Published in 1965 and long out of print, the novel follows Oliver, a Black teenager spending a final summer before college in the eccentric Michigan household of his wealthy patron...
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