Conversations about getting fired. Heads up, there’s swearing -- after all, we’ve been fired.
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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. 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 ...
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The book club you've always wanted to be a part of with Steve, Chip, & Professor Pam
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Colombe Schneck’s THE PARIS TRILOGY is a book—or rather three books, first published separately in French—about growing up, about friendship, about love, about family, about class, about womanhood and the patriarchy…and about swimming. In short, about every side of a life, as it just happens to take place in Paris. Rendered in crisp, fluid English …
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Carol says maybe you shouldn't take a swing at your boss, even if you think they really deserve it. Also! Some bonus information about working with a career coach.Por Pam Mandel
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Morgan thinks there's a good chance you were doing the right thing, that's why you got canned.Por Pam Mandel
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Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian
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A woman speaks to us from her room in a residential home, of some description. She reflects on her life, her family, her pets, on time—the past, present and the future—on Manson Family Alumnus Leslie Van Houyten, on History, on Death, on the Occult, on what it means to be “sensitive”…and so much more besides. All the while she is distracted, bother…
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Win reads the Scientology rule book and gets fired anyway.Por Pam Mandel
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This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leave one’s home. It’s about attempting to lay down roots elsewhere. It’s about the mystery, banality, and all-consuming nature of love. It’s about the dynamics of friendship, and how those are stress-test…
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Kay suggests you dive deep into what defines you. Break that habit of seeking validation from your job, your stuff, your car. Focus on the real, and if that real is chickens, well, that's cool, get chickens.Por Pam Mandel
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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
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For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the temperature (and the pulse!) of the book industry, from bookshops, to publishers, to prizes, to festivals... Enjoy! Buy The Shakespeare and Company Book…
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Johanna turns WTF into asking for more.Por Pam Mandel
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Dominic says it's (mostly) okay to tell your story so long as you tell the truth. And do not -- I repeat, do not rush to sign those papers. Take your time.Por Pam Mandel
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Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to the south of France, charged—by forces unknown—with infiltrating and sowing chaos at a commune of eco-warriors, her mission leads her into exhilarating reflections on activism, on charisma, on neandertha…
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Melissa isn't fooled, she knows what that **** is about. Learn more about the Great Skate Tour on Instagram.Por Pam Mandel
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Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before. Set in Syracuse in 412 BC, after the catastrophic attempt by Athens to invade the city, Lampo and Gelon, two out-of-work potters, have the harebrained idea of staging a pr…
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Sarah's manager is right there, I mean, RIGHT there.Por Pam Mandel
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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…
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CeCe tries to save the day. Spoiler alert, the day was not saved.Por Pam Mandel
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School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Midd…
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Keith wakes up from his dream job.Por Pam Mandel
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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
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This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah, twenty years apart. Kwame is Black, Gay, British of Ghanian descent, a dedicated teacher, a dependable friend—character traits and conditions of life that weave around each other …
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Sari takes the fall.----more---- Find Sari's work at Oldster, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism.Por Pam Mandel
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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
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The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the objects stored in them, the neighbours that circle them…and the trauma that has soaked into their walls over years past, and that is now seeping slowly out, poisonin…
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Andrew takes the dessert cart for one last spin around the dining room. ----more---- Andrew Evans is the author of The Black Penguin.Por Pam Mandel
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So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? Wha…
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Grant helps us navigate the messy feelings of getting fired. Get in touch with Grant at Counseling 4 Nerds. Find a therapist at Psychology Today. ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Ca…
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We recently welcomed Catherine Lacey to the bookshop to discuss her vertiginous latest novel Biography of X. Ostensibly the quest of a journalist, C.M. Lucca, to discover more about the life of her late wife—an artist who went by many names, but who she knew only as X—it quickly becomes clear that, in Biography of X, it’s not just one life being ca…
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Frank doesn't trust the man. At all. ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug MackPor Pam Mandel
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