The Shakespeare and Company Interview

Adam Biles

Booking Overview

A literary interview podcast focused on long-form conversations with internationally acclaimed authors, typically centered on new books and the writers’ creative and intellectual work. Strong pitches include award-winning novelists, memoirists, essayists, poets, and literary nonfiction authors with substantial new releases or recognized expertise; booking is likely high difficulty because the show regularly features prominent, internationally published writers.

Metrics

Episodes: 214

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 8.5k subscribers

Instagram: 241.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

events@shakespeareandcompany.com

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Host

Adam Biles - Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, where he hosts long-form conversations with internationally acclaimed authors.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Established novelists, memoirists, essayists, poets, literary nonfiction authors, and culturally significant writers with a substantial publication record and a strong connection to a current book or major literary subject.

Required Achievements:

Internationally published or acclaimed books, Major literary prizes or nominations, Bestselling or widely translated work, National or international media coverage

Recent Guest Discussions

Amit Chaudhuri - His Novel Chateau Rouge, Contemporary Paris, Race And Visibility, Heritage Modernity, And Writing Against Familiar Representations Of The City.

M. John Harrison - His Novel The End Of Everything, Epistemological Catastrophe, Societal Collapse, Reader Trust, Post-2008 Britain, Brexit, And Artificial Intelligence Anxieties.

Edward Chisholm - His Book Murder In Paris '68, The Markovic Affair, Alain Delon, Postwar French Crime And Politics, Archival Research, And Unresolved Historical Mysteries.

Recent Topics

Literature, Literary Fiction, Authors, Writing, Paris

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

Dave Eggers: Contrapposto, Craft, and the Case Against AI

September 17, 2026

Dave Eggers joins us to discuss his 14th novel, Contrapposto, a six-decade love story between childhood friends Cricket and Olympia, illustrated with his own drawings. Eggers traces the book's twenty-year gestation, the moment Olympia's character unlocked its structure, and why he gave Cricket his own boyhood fantasy of being "apprenticed" as a young artist. The conversation ranges widely: the decline of art-school access and the pier-side art collective he's launched in San Francisco; his li...

Editions - Episode 2 - Illusions with Megan Nolan

September 02, 2026

In the second 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 Megan Nolan to discuss Illusions by Ruth Rehmann, in a new translation by Rob Madole, the latest title in the Faber Editions imprint.First published in Germany in 1959 and lost to English-language readers for decades, the novel follows four employees of a vast West German corporation across a single weekend. Cinemati...

Paris, Deconstructed: Amit Chaudhuri’s Château Rouge

July 22, 2026

Amit Chaudhuri joins Adam Biles to discuss his new novel Chateau Rouge, set not in the postcard Paris of Hemingway and Midnight in Paris, but in the neighbourhood around Gare du Nord — a Paris that resists being known, curated, or confirmed.Chaudhuri talks about writing against the "already known" city, drawing on Roland Barthes and the idea of "heritage modernity" to explain why he wanted to deconstruct Paris's status as a museum-piece rather than a lived-in place. He discusses his narrator'...

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