Ranked #1
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
🪄On the KLF, Conspiracies, and Chaos with John Higgs🪄
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs was first published ten years ago, self-pub... Read more
2 Aug 2023
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53mins
Ranked #2
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
Sunday Poetry: Nick Laird reads from Up Late
Buy Up Late: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/up-lateReeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, ... Read more
22 Jul 2023
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19mins
Ranked #3
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
On Writing, Wormholes, and Wasted Opportunities, with Isabel Waidner
Unique in its inventiveness, unique in its prose style, unique in its point of view and unique in its sense of humour, I... Read more
19 Jul 2023
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50mins
Ranked #4
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
🏫On writing and translating The Topeka School, with Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic🏫
Last week, Adam chaired a conversation between Ben Lerner and Jakuta Alikavazovic, on the writing and translating of The... Read more
13 Jul 2023
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1hr 34mins
Ranked #5
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
🏇On Blood, Sweat and Racetracking, with Kathryn Scanlan🏇
Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch is the testament of Sonia—a horse trainer, a racetracker—who tells her story in taut vi... Read more
27 Jun 2023
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28mins
Ranked #6
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
BONUS: Lex Paulson on Cicero and the Future of Democracy
A few weeks back we had our dear friend, Bloomsday MC, and eminent Bloomcaster Prof. Lex Paulson as a guest in the libra... Read more
15 Jun 2023
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1hr
Ranked #7
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
Hernan Diaz on his Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, Trust
We recently spent a very special evening with 2023 Pulitzer Prizewinner Hernan Diaz, discussing TRUST, his extraordinary... Read more
13 Jun 2023
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1hr
Ranked #8
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
When Dolly Alderton stopped by for a signing we took the chance to get her to answer our Café’s Proust Questionnaire. Do... Read more
7 Jun 2023
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39mins
Ranked #9
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
In Watch Us Dance—Leïla Slimani’s effervescent new novel—we rejoin the Belhaj family in 1968 a dozen years into the life... Read more
1 Jun 2023
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49mins
Ranked #10
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
After the recent passing of Martin Amis, we dug out this sizzling conversation between him and Will Self at our festival... Read more
22 May 2023
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40mins