# The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Official site: http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com
Author: Shakespeare and Company
Episodes: 210

## Resource

Discover your next favourite book, or take a deep dive into the mind of an author you love, with The Shakespeare and Company Interview podcast. Now also the home of Editions: A Shakespeare and Company x Faber Production. Long-form interviews with internationally acclaimed authors, recorded from our bookshop in the heart of Paris. Hosted by S&Co Literary Director, Adam Biles. Discover all our upcoming events here . If you enjoy these conversations, you can order The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews here . Past guests include: Ottessa Moshfegh, Ian McEwan, Ali Smith, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Katie Kitamura, Elif Shafak, Claire-Louiose Bennett, Leïla Simoni, Ian Dunt, David Runciman, Richard Powers, Eimear McBride, Armando Iannucci, Lauren Grodd, Lauren Elkin, Recebcca Solnit, John Berger, Hollie McNish, Michael Pedersen, Rob Doyle, Philippe Sands, George Saunders, Edouard Louis, Rachel Cusk, Preti Taneja, Alejandro Zambra, DBC Pierre, Meg Mason, Sandra Newman, David Simon, Joshua Cohen, Geoff Dyer, David Wallce-Wells, Emul Saint-John Mandel, Mohsin Hamid, Tess Gunty, A.M. Homes, John Higgs, Miriam Toews, Kamila Shamsie, Annie Ernaux, William Boyd, David Keenan, Jonatha…

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## Episodes
- [Alain Delon, Murder and Paris ’68, with Edward Chisholm](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/alain-delon-murder-and-paris-68-with-edward-chisholm) — 2026-06-24T22:00:00+00:00
- [BLOOMCAST: 🎬Ulysses Movie Watch-along Special🎬](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/bloomcast-ulysses-movie-watch-along-special) — 2026-06-15T14:57:02+00:00
- [Fear Less: Tracy K. Smith on Poetry in Perilous Times](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/fear-less-tracy-k-smith-on-poetry-in-perilous-times) — 2026-06-10T22:00:00+00:00
- [Editions - Episode 1 - Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes with Taìno Mendez](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/editions-episode-1-ladies-of-the-rachmaninoff-eyes-with-ta-no-mendez) — 2026-05-27T23:00:00+00:00
- [Lea Ypi: Dignity, Fiction, and the Lives History Erases](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/lea-ypi-dignity-fiction-and-the-lives-history-erases) — 2026-05-20T22:00:00+00:00
- [Shelter and Storm: Arundhati Roy on Writing Her Mother](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/shelter-and-storm-arundhati-roy-on-writing-her-mother) — 2026-04-29T23:00:00+00:00
- [Ben Lerner on Transcription](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/ben-lerner-on-transcription) — 2026-04-15T22:00:00+00:00
- [Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Odyssey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/why-translate-homer-again-daniel-mendelsohn-on-his-new-odyssey) — 2026-04-02T15:10:07+00:00
- [Rare Book Collecting with Ben Brown](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/rare-book-collecting-with-ben-brown) — 2026-03-26T14:04:40+00:00
- [Going South: Tash Aw on Inheritance, Identity, and Escape](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/going-south-tash-aw-on-inheritance-identity-and-escape) — 2026-03-23T15:01:26+00:00
- [Booker Prize Winner David Szalay on Agency, Violence, and Restraint](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/booker-prize-winner-david-szalay-on-agency-violence-and-restraint) — 2026-03-04T23:00:00+00:00
- [Murder, Mannerism and the Medicis with Laurent Binet](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/murder-mannerism-and-the-medicis-with-laurent-binet) — 2026-02-19T11:29:36+00:00
- [George Saunders: Fiction, Free Will, and the Question of Redemption](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/george-saunders-fiction-free-will-and-the-question-of-redemption) — 2026-02-04T23:00:00+00:00
- [Narrative Amid Trauma: Emily LaBarge in conversation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/narrative-amid-trauma-emily-labarge-in-conversation) — 2026-01-21T23:00:00+00:00
- [See It, Say It, Sorted: Jonathan Coe’s Genre-Bending Novel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/see-it-say-it-sorted-jonathan-coe-s-genre-bending-novel) — 2026-01-07T23:00:00+00:00
- [Books Matter More Than Ever: A Conversation with Ian Patterson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/books-matter-more-than-ever-a-conversation-with-ian-patterson) — 2025-12-24T23:00:00+00:00
- [John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, with Ian Leslie](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/john-paul-a-love-story-in-songs-with-ian-leslie) — 2025-12-11T07:57:57+00:00
- [When Stories Fall Apart: Miriam Robinson on Love, Loss, and Truth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/when-stories-fall-apart-miriam-robinson-on-love-loss-and-truth) — 2025-11-27T10:56:28+00:00
- [Why We Write, Why We Live, with Miriam Toews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/why-we-write-why-we-live-with-miriam-toews) — 2025-11-13T05:41:19+00:00
- [How France Lost Its Way, with Andrew Hussey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/how-france-lost-its-way-with-andrew-hussey) — 2025-10-15T22:00:00+00:00
- [Philippe Sands: Pinochet, Walter Rauff, and the Shadows of History](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/philippe-sands-pinochet-walter-rauff-and-the-shadows-of-history) — 2025-10-02T10:59:39+00:00
- [Moonlight Express: Monisha Rajesh on the Magic of Night Trains](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/moonlight-express-monisha-rajesh-on-the-magic-of-night-trains) — 2025-09-17T22:00:00+00:00
- [Twenty Writers, One Bookshop: The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, now in paperback](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/twenty-writers-one-bookshop-the-shakespeare-and-company-book-of-interviews-now-in-paperback) — 2025-09-03T22:00:00+00:00
- [Small Girl, Big Ideas: Getting to know Mafalda, with Samanta Schweblin and Frank Wynne](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/small-girl-big-ideas-getting-to-know-mafalda-with-samanta-schweblin-and-frank-wynne) — 2025-08-21T11:29:57+00:00
- [Calls May Be Recorded:  Lipstick, Loneliness, and Late Capitalism with Katharina Volckmer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/calls-may-be-recorded-lipstick-loneliness-and-late-capitalism-with-katharina-volckmer) — 2025-08-06T23:00:00+00:00
- [The Shape of Survival: Eimear McBride on Love, Art, and the City](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/the-shape-of-survival-eimear-mcbride-on-love-art-and-the-city) — 2025-07-30T23:00:00+00:00
- [Katie Kitamura on Fiction’s Shifting Realities](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/katie-kitamura-on-fiction-s-shifting-realities) — 2025-07-24T22:00:00+00:00
- [Renton Returns, Sick Boy in Love: Irvine Welsh Reimagines His Antiheroes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/renton-returns-sick-boy-in-love-irvine-welsh-reimagines-his-antiheroes) — 2025-07-16T22:00:00+00:00
- [Inside the Story Machine: Natasha Brown on Media, Power, and Fiction](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shakespeare-and-company-interview-174467/inside-the-story-machine-natasha-brown-on-media-power-and-fiction) — 2025-07-09T22:00:00+00:00

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