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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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“Sports Across The Board” features interviews with sports business leaders, media personalities, athletes, and more. Host Gary McKillips is a veteran sportswriter and award-winning correspondent for Associated Press Radio.
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Welcome to The Becoming Podcast, where we talk about modern-day rites of passage, radical transformation, and other times of becoming in women's lives...and how these times can be a catalyst to become more of who you are. Hosted by women's mentor, coach + doula, Jessie Harrold.
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The Corner Blitz has our corner of Southwest Mississippi covered when it comes to sports. Hosted by Adam Northam, who is joined by Benji Embry, Brad Woods and Bradley Creel, each week you can hear the guys interview local coaches, players, and offer their take on anything in the sporting world.
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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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Set in small-town, post-crash Ireland, The Bee Sting follows the Barnes family—Dickie, Imelda, Cass and PJ—as the fabric of their lives first frays at the edges, then begins to unravel completely. The Barnes’ are endearing, and complex, and funny, and infuriating… In short, one of the most realistic and memorable portrayals of a family you’ll find …
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A woman tells her son about his early life. About the months and years that he will by now have forgotten. When he was a baby, then a toddler, and when she was going into battle every day. For him first, and only then for herself. It’s a battle fought on many fronts. Against exhaustion, against time, against the loss of selfhood, against an increas…
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My friends! I'm really excited to share this interview with the amazing Asha Frost. We had such a beautiful conversation, and Asha has so much wisdom to share, and does so eloquently. Here's some of what Asha and I talk about in this episode: > How Asha's Lupus diagnosis was a threshold moment in her life that made it impossible to keep up with the…
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The biographies of several artists, all named G, form a kind of exoskeleton to Rachel Cusk’s latest novel Parade, encasing the book’s other captivating strands—the story of an unprovoked attack on a Parisian street, the story of a couple on a remote island, the story of a suicide at a museum, the story of the death of a mother. Elements which thems…
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Last week we were joined in the bookshop by Hari Kunzru, whose new novel Blue Ruin is a deeply unsettling, and intensely thought provoking reflection on the impact capital has on people, but also on art, and those who create it. It is the perfect final instalment—alongside White Tears and Red Pill—in Hari Kunzru’s own trois couleurs —a loose trilog…
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On this week's Corner Blitz Podcast, we speak with the MHSAA 5A girls three-peaters in track and field, the Ole Brook Lady Panthers; and the Ole Brook boys, who've won two of the last three state titles. Head coaches Darien Dorsey and Tonya Johns bring along state champion student athletes Jasmine Robertson, Ariyana Graham, Xavier Gayten and Coderr…
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Our annual trip to the V Foundation for Pediatric Cancer gala in Sarasota netted interviews with some of the stars, who suppor the cause, but also have oipinions on some of sports most pressing issues. Listen as we talk with Buiffalo Bills Hall of Famer, and three time cancer survisor Jim Kelly; NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon; Tenessee basketaball coach…
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I'm thrilled to bring you this conversation with Sarah Wildeman on the Becoming Podcast this month. This was such a rich and far-reaching dialogue about all things community-building, which is such an important locus of support – and also struggle – as we traverse times of deep change in our lives. Here's some of what Sarah and I talk about in this…
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Last week we were joined by the wonderful Sheila Heti to celebrate the launch of her Alphabetical Diaries. In taking a decade of her journals, sorting the sentences alphabetically, then paring them down to about a tenth of their original length, Sheila Heti has freed a slice of her life from the shackles of time and in doing so has extracted some o…
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Tonight on The Corner Blitz, we're joined by the MAIS 2A Baseball State Champions, the Wilkinson County Christian Academy Rams. Head Coach Kyle White rides all the way to Fit Life from Woodville and brings three of his heavy hitters, seniors Jack Orgeron and Gavin Davis, and junior pitcher Jacob Sessions. We talk about long roadtrips in MAIS 2A, wi…
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To celebrate Dylan Thomas Day 2024 we’re delighted to share this recording of our recent event with award-winning songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews. The evening also featured live music from Flora Hibberd and her band, including a brand new song composed for this evening. Enjoy! More from Cerys Matthews: Out of Chaos Comes Bliss: ht…
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This week we get outside the friendly confines of Fit Life and broadcast on location at Southwest Mississippi Community College for a high school football spring scrimmage. Amite County coach Jeffery Gibson faces off against his little brother, Don Gibson, and the Port Allen Pelicans. We talk to both afterward. We also catch up with North Pike coac…
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This week we're joined by Copiah-Lincoln Community College Lady Wolfpack Basketball Coach Britta Stephens, who reflects on her not-quite-one-year on the job with the She Wolves, recruiting and performing at the juco level and how it's important to have assistant coaches who can choose restaurants at which to stop on road trips. We also talk to Nort…
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A few weeks ago, we welcomed Pulitzer Prizewinner Viet Thanh Nguyen to Shakespeare and Company to discuss his engrossing new work A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial, a book about family, and memory, and storytelling, and history, on all the levels that it impacts upon a life. Buy A Man of Two Faces here: https://www.shakespeareandc…
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Hello, friend! I'm really excited to share my conversation with Danielle Cohen with you. If you're a mother, an entrepreneur, a multi-passionate human, or have ever been on either side of a camera, this episode is a must-listen. First, let me tell you a little bit about Danielle. Danielle Cohen is a visibility coach & professional photographer with…
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This week on The Corner Blitz we have our annual sit-down with Brookhaven High School Tennis Coach Becky Green as she tallies up yet another line on her state champion spreadsheet. This time it's two pairs of doubles winners - Allie Grace McNeil (SR), Annie Stewart (8th), Caroline Kilpatrick (JR) and Cohen Leggett (FR). That was Caroline's THIRD st…
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This week on The Corner Blitz, longtime North Pike Lady Jags Softball Coach Sonya Wallace comes back on the show, and with her is a senior Lady Jag hitting .415 and committed to Copiah-Lincoln, Emilie Williams. They talk about the grind of scheduling a dozen 7A schools during the regular season and how being in knife fights all year gets you ready …
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A few weeks ago we welcomed Ottessa Moshfegh to Shakespeare and Company. That night we’re headed almost back to where it all began by revisiting Moshfegh’s second book Eileen, the small town noir that propelled this experimental writer into the bestseller charts and onto the Booker shortlist. Eileen has just been adapted into a Hollywood film—direc…
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On this week's show we catch up with the three-time Lincoln County/Region winners in tennis - the Bogue Chitto Bobcats. Coach Chase Wallace joins us on his last ride before ascending into heaven (becoming assistant principal in the Sartin Administration) along with seniors Jax Leggett, Gage Smith, Colten Kimble and Andrew Merrell. The CB crew also …
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On the April 10, 2024 Corner Blitz, Southwest Bears Baseball Coach Jack Edmondson and Co-Lin Wolfpack Baseball Coach Adam Chamblee prepare for the renewal of the Coca-Cola Classic rivalry, and they do so with 45 minutes of bromance. Southwest Athletic Director Ken Jackson also comes on the show to reveal the school will add women's volleyball to th…
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James—the new novel by Percival Everett—retells, reframes, and reimagines Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the black man whose flight from slavery quickly entangles with the journey of Huck, on the run after faking his own death to escape his violent father. James gives us the events of Twain’s picaresque…
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Did you know “Cool Papa” Bell was so quick he could turn off the switch and be in bed before the room went dark? Do you know about baseball’s “forgotten man? How about where the great Hank Aaron began his illustrious career? The answers to these and other questions help form the history of baseball’s Negro Leagues. Listen as the Negro Leagues Museu…
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The Corner Blitz checks in with the winngest high school softball team in Southwest Mississippi thus far: the 14-2 Wesson Lady Cobras. We talk with coach Michelle Nunnery, Longwood University pitcher commit Mallory Sanders and the field marshal behind home plate, catcher Julianna Wilson. Adam and the Two Brads also discuss Caitlin Clark on 12 milli…
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Hello, friend! I'm delighted to share this month's Becoming Podcast episode with you. In it, I interview artist and fellow wilderness quester Glenda Goodrich. Glenda is an artist, art doula, SoulCollage® facilitator, writer, and convener of ceremony. She brings together earth-based rituals, community gatherings, and creative expression in a search …
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Enterprise Attendance Center Archery Coach Lauren Jordan, assistant coach Nicole Lawrence and a handful of the team's top archers join The Corner Blitz to celebrate last week's AIMS High School 1A South State Championship and look ahead to the state finals, April 8-12. We also recap the 20-win basketball season with Southwest MS Community College w…
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We were joined by countercultural historian Pat Thomas, and Peter Hale, manager of the Ginsberg estate, and discover their new collaboration Material Wealth Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg. * A prolific poet, raconteur, activist, and thinker, Allen Ginsberg was also a prolific collector, meticulously saving letters, postcards, draft n…
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