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The Shakespeare And Company Book Of Interviews

The Shakespeare And Company Book Of Interviews

Adam Biles Ed.

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and novelist and literary directo...

Editorial:
Canongate Books
Año de edición:
2023
ISBN:
978-1-80530-003-8
Páginas:
237
Q. 270
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Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and novelist and literary director Adam Biles have hosted several hundred interviews with writers, ranging from prize-winning novelists to visionary non-fiction writers. The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews is a selection of the best of these interviews from the last decade. Packed with warmth, sensitivity and humour, it's a celebration of the greatest writers of our age and an insight into the lives and thoughts behind some of today's most talked-about books. Includes interviews with: Madeline Miller, Olivia Laing, Marlon James, George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Colson Whitehead, Hari Kunzru, Lïela Slimani, Jesmyn Ward, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Carlo Rovelli, Geoff Dyer & more.

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