Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James Joyce Podcast
1) Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
For the second part of this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam get help from Claire-Louise Bennett and Foad Dizadji-Bahmani to explore how it challenges conventional ideas of narra...Show More
2) Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
Happy Joycension Day!For this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam reunited for a lively discussion of Watt by Samuel Beckett, asking: How does Beckett’s minimalist, disintegrat...Show More
3) BEASTCAST! Lex and Alice quiz Adam about his novel Beasts of England
In this special episode, the Bloomcasters take on their trickiest task yet : criticizing one of their own. Adam Biles’ “Beasts of England”, a canny and hilarious sequel to George Orwell’s “Animal...Show More
4) BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD
Our Bloomcasters reconvene on January 6th, “Joycension Day”, to discuss The Dead : the final piece in Joyce’s Dubliners, described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the greatest short stories ever written".&n...Show More
5) Bonus Episode: 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 library to give a talk on Cicero, drawing on his book Cicero and the People’s Will: P...Show More
6) BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL
This December—six months after saying goodbye—Bloomcast is back for a Holiday Special! Join Alice, Lex and Adam as they answer your questions, play games, tease each other, drink (tea, whiskey, Gimber...Show More
7) Bloomcast | Episode 10 | Live at the American Library in Paris
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...Show More
8) BONUS EPISODE: Colm Tóibín, in conversation with Alice McCrum
What did James Joyce’s Ulysses do to literature, and how has literature reacted since? What is its role in the contemporary literary landscape? In celebration of the book’s centennial and in anticipat...Show More
9) Pages 927 - 933 │ Penelope, part XIII │ Read by Sally Rooney
Pages 927 - 933 │ Penelope, part XIII │ Read by Sally RooneySally Rooney is an Irish novelist. She is the author of Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are Y...Show More
10) Pages 921 - 927 │ Penelope, part XII │ Read by Lou Doillon
Pages 921 - 927 │ Penelope, part XII │ Read by Lou DoillonLou Doillon, born in 1982, is a Franco-British singer, songwriter, artist, actor, model living in Paris, France. She is knight of arts and let...Show More