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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 30/08/2026

Ditto the restaurants that will refuse you a steak unless it’s « bleu » or « saignant »… 🥩

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

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

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Paris, Deconstructed: Amit Chaudhuri’s Château Rouge | The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 22/07/2026

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

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10/07/2026

⚠️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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 11/07/2026

Some people claim Ulysses can be read in real time, but that would actually mean reading certain Bloom / Stephen chapters simultaneously, so would be quite a feat…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10/07/2026

⚠️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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 09/07/2026

🎙️ 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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 15/06/2026

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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 14/06/2026

"Ladies and gentlemen of the press," Mr. T said, "I pity a great many fools this year."

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 06/06/2026

Why haven’t PhD theses been written on how Keith inspired League of Gentlemen’s Uncle Harvey?!

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

"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...

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

She was so delighted we hosted our 2008 festival in a marquee because it meant she could smoke all the way through her event. (And she did!)

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 04/06/2026

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)

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 03/06/2026

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

Allen Ginsberg reading at Shakespeare and Company, Paris

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 28/05/2026

🎙️ 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

🎙️ It's here! Editions, a new podcast from us and @faberbooks.bsky.social, celebrating radical literary voices, launches today with episode1: 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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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 28/05/2026

Would love to know what they ate. The chances of finding anything vegetarian in a French restaurant in the 1970s being pretty close to zero...

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

"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.

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A Shakespeare and Company Interview: David Szalay on his novel “Flesh”

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles discusses memory and masculinity with novelist David Szalay.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 23/05/2026

It’s stone cold proof you used AI, that’s what it is… (apparently)

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 23/05/2026

Or that people used em-dashes. Used to love an em-dash from time to time. Now terrified to use one…

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"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.

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A Shakespeare and Company Interview: Arundhati Roy

Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks to Arudhati Roy about her first memoir and her early life in India.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 22/04/2026

The stupidest thing is that it could actually work.

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 16/04/2026

Wait till you hear what he does in his down time…

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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com · 10/04/2026

"How was the restaurant?" "The food was terrible and there wasn't enough of it!"

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