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Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce

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  • Season 1 for... Ulysses by James Joyce. The unabridged text, read by more than a hundred writers, artists, comedians and musicians

    Season 2 for... Bloomcast. A deep-dive into the text with Adam Biles, Alice McCrum and Lex Paulson, as well as other bonus episodes.


    To celebrate a hundred years since Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s Ulysses, and to encourage readers to engage (or re-engage) with this spirited, funny, life-changing book, Shakespeare and Company, Paris—in partnership with Penguin Classics and Hay Festival—created an ensemble recording of the unabridged text, released as a free podcast between the centenary of the publication on 2nd February 2022 and Bloomsday on June 16 2022.


    Read by more than a hundred writers, artists, comedians and musicians from all over the world— including Sally Rooney, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry, Pete Buttigieg, Kae Tempest, Ben Okri, Ali Smith, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley and many, many more... (full cast list below)—Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses is a polyphonic and diverse celebration of this Modernist masterwork.


    Conceived and produced by Adam Biles, Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris


    Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com

    Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses

    Find out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/home


    Featuring (in order):

    Will Self

    Jeanette Winterson

    Paul Murray

    Ishion Hutchinson

    Caoilinn Hughes

    Eddie Izzard

    Lola Peploe

    Nathan Englander

    Joe Dunthorne

    Kate Stables

    Jarred McGinnis

    Nicholson Baker

    Richard Barnett

    Amy Sackville

    Chigozie Obioma

    Erica Wagner

    Patrick Marber

    Claire-Louise Bennett

    Aleksandar Hemon

    Ryan Van Winkle

    Cressida Brown

    Holly Pester

    Adam Thirlwell

    Catherine Lacey

    Ciaran Farrell

    Lauren Elkin

    Andrew Hankinson

    Conor Horgan

    Andy Miller

    Preti Taneja

    Salena Godden

    Sinéad Gleeson

    Luke Kennard

    Sophie Gorman

    Nicole Flattery

    John Freeman

    Aysegul Savas

    Daniel Levin Becker

    John Butler

    John Mitchinson

    Sigrid Rausing

    Max Porter

    Eimear McBride

    Keith Ridgway

    Philip Hoare

    Deborah Landau

    Karthika Nair

    Cerys Matthews

    DBC Pierre

    Katharina Volckmer 

    Mark O’Connell

    Marcel Theroux

    Sylvia Whitman & David Delannet

    Lenny Kaye

    Sarah Churchwell

    Olivia Laing

    Katie Kitamura

    Ali Smith

    Keri Walsh

    Lesley Blume

    Patrick Hastings

    Ben Okri

    Colm Toibin

    Chloe Aridjis

    Stephen Fry

    Douglas Stuart

    Pete Buttigieg

    Tara Mulholland

    Paul Muldoon

    S&Co Table Readers (Anne Bielec, Ben Brown, Amanda Dennis, Linda Fallon, Heather Heartley, Octavia Horgan, Conor Lee Bourke, Lex Paulson, Kate Poston, Francesca Reece)

    David Keenan

    Tom McCarthy

    David Szalay

    Jesse Ball

    Carter Bays

    James Gregor

    Will Burns

    Declan McCavana

    Greg Proops

    Jennifer Canada

    Sam Jordison

    Eloise Millar

    Hollie McNish

    Michael Pedersen

    Jonathan Safran Foer

    Sasha Foer

    Ethan Hawke

    Rob Doyle

    Roisin Kiberd

    Lucy Sante

    Caitlinn O Keefe

    Deborah Levy

    Meena Kandasamy

    Joanna Lumley

    Susan Philipz

    Sylvia Whitman

    Bonnie Greer

    Emilie Pine

    Margaret Atwood

    Kae Tempest

    Lou Doillon

    Sally Rooney



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  • Introducing Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses

    Introducing Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses
    Jan 18 2022

    2nd February - 16th June 2022


    933 Pages, 110 readers, (roughly) 70 characters, 18 Sections, 5 months, 1 book.


    Friends of Shakespeare and Company read ULYSSES by James Joyce


    To listen, subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.


    Friends of Shakespeare and Company read ULYSSES is conceived and produced at Shakespeare and Company in Paris by S&Co Literary Director Adam Biles in collaboration with Professor Lex Paulson, and in partnership with Penguin Classics and Hay Festival.


    Find out more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com

    Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses

    Find out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/home


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  • Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses

    Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses
    Jan 29 2022

    In anticipation of the first episode of Friends of Shakespeare and Company Read Ulysses this Wednesday, we were delighted to talk to former S&Co tumbleweed Patrick Hastings, and the creator of UlyssesGuide.com, about The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses, his essential companion to this modernist classic.


    Buy The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9781421443492/the-guide-to-james-joyces-ulysses


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    SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES


    All episodes of Friends of Shakespeare Read Ulysses are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.


    Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=en

    Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandco


    In addition, if you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of the bookshop's interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop’s non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.


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    Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com

    Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses

    Find out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/home


    Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-time

    Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.

    Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1

    Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/

    Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.

    Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpS

    Visit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ 

    Music production by Adrien Chicot.

    Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/

    Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/


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  • Bloomcast │Episode 1│Telemachus, Nestor, and Proteus

    Bloomcast │Episode 1│Telemachus, Nestor, and Proteus
    Jan 30 2022

    Bloomcast │Episode 1│Telemachus, Nestor, and Proteus

     

    Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson, live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in 1922. 

     

    Voilà! Here is episode one, in which they discuss: the reasons to read Ulysses (and how not to); Joyce's ambitions, gifts, and wiles; the historical, cultural, and biographical context of the novel; the women that brought his epic to life; as well as the first three episodes of the novel,, featuring Stephen Dedalus, Buck Mulligan, William Shakespeare, Leo Taxil, and the most famous nose-picking in Western literature. 

     

    Please share your thoughts on the book and anything you’d like to hear us discuss: ulysses@shakespeareandcompany.com

     

    A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. 

     

    In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of democracy.

     

    Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in French as Défense de nourrir les vieux.


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    SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURES


    All episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.


    Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026

    Subscribe on Spotify here: https://anchor.fm/sandco

    Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandco


    In addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop’s non-profit.


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    Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com

    Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses

    Find out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/home


    Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.net

    Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-time

    Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.

    Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.

    Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1

    Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/

    Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.

    Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpS

    Visit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ 

    Music production by Adrien Chicot.

    Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/

    Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/


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Joyce and the readings are magical and magnificent. I swept away beauty performance and the text, but then snatched cruel out of this world by the horrific, miserable cacophonous in human intro and wrap up the podcast.

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