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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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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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 anticipation of Bloomsday, novelist and scholar Colm Tóibín spoke to Alice McCrum on May 27, 2022 at the American Library in Paris with a live audience both in person and on Zoom about the history, publication, and legacy of the book to which, in the words of T.S. Eliot, “we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.”
Colm Tóibín is a novelist, essayist, and critic. He is the author of many works, including The Blackwater Lightship (1996), shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Master (2004), awarded the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2004 Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, and Brooklyn (2009), awarded the Costa Novel Award. Tóibín received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2021.
A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris.
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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.
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Music production by Adrien Chicot.
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Photo of Colm Tóibín by Brigitte Lacombe
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