Best James Kandasamy Podcasts (2024)

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Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen 1:02:16

1h ago1:02:16

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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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Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn 34:56

15d ago34:56

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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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Passive Real Estate Investors Need To Know This Before Filing Their 2023 Taxes! 56:12

16d ago56:12

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Learn Essential Tax Planning Tips And Strategies Before April 15th With Nationally-recognized CPAs And Tax Strategists "Amanda Han" and "Matt Macfarland" #Topics How Smart Tax Moves Can Boost Your Real Estate Riches Passive Income, Active Savings - Tax Perks for the Chill Investor Discover The Latest Tax-Saving Strategies For Real Estate Investor…

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On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale 40:13

22d ago40:13

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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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Bidding adieu to Freeman’s literary journal, with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Deborah Landau, Juan Gabriel Vazquez, and John Freeman 54:16

1M ago54:16

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On this very special January night, editor extraordinaire John Freeman was joined by three of his star contributors, Jakuta Alikavazovic, Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Deborah Landau to bid farewell to his literary journal. Buy Freeman’s Conclusions: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/freemans-conclusions * Jakuta Alikavazovic (b.1979) is a Fre…

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On Friendship, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen 57:08

2M ago57:08

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In early February, we hosted a riotous, tender, enchanting and uplifting evening of poetry and prose with the irrepressible Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen. After their readings they sat down with Adam Biles for a chat about friendship, a theme that unites their work. Buy Hollie McNish’s Lobster here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/…

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Love in the Time of Creative-Writing Classes, with Brandon Taylor 51:11

2M ago51:11

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Our guest this week is Brandon Taylor, whose new book The Late Americans is a stark retooling of the campus novel for the 21st century. Taking a university town in Iowa as his canvas, Taylor depicts the lives of a loose group of friends and associates: Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima—students of writing and dance—as time barrels them towards …

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Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects 52:30

3M ago52:30

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Last week, we were joined in the bookshop by Annabelle Hirsch whose new book A History of Women in 101 Objects not only gives us an untold and innovative history of the world— a history takes us from the dawn of civilisation to the present day, through ancient Egypt, medieval Venice, revolutionary France and the roaring twenties—but also launches a…

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☕Proust Questionnaire: Holly McNish & Michael Pedersen☕ 1:23:37

3M ago1:23:37

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In advance of their event at Shakespeare and Company this February 8th, poets Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen answer our café’s Proust Questionnaire. Be warned, this gets saucy quickly… Find out more about their event here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/hollie-mcnish-michael-pedersen * Hollie McNish is an award-winning poet, write…

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Economic Forecast and Commercial Real Estate Outlook For 2024 54:00

4M ago54:00

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This webinar delves into the future of the commercial real estate economy, exploring topics like the impact of inflation on prices, the possibility of a recession, opportunities arising from drought conditions, lessons from the 1977-81 inflation era, and strategies for investors to safeguard their portfolios in a high inflation environment. The hos…

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YEAR-END TAX ERRORS THAT COULD COST REAL ESTATE INVESTORS THOUSANDS IN 2023-24! 52:38

4M ago52:38

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Join us in this insightful webinar hosted by Josh Belk, a trailblazer in financial consulting, and James Kandasamy, a seasoned real estate investment expert. Dive into the complexities of year-end tax planning for 2023-24, and uncover the silent wealth killers lurking in common tax errors. Gain unparalleled insights into optimizing tax strategies, …

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BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD 1:40:37

4M ago1:40:37

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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". Leaning heavily as always on the wisdom of honorary Bloomcasters Declan Kiberd and Colm Toibin, they cover orchestrated dinner parties, ego death, the …

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😱On Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Adam Thirlwell😱 1:05:28

4M ago1:05:28

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This episode we’re discussing The Possessed, the great, almost-lost novel by Witold Gombrowicz, arguably Poland’s greatest modernist writer. The Possessed is a Gothic-infused romp set in the roaring twenties, centred around an uncanny love story between Maja, an upper class tennis player, and her coach Leszczuk, but also featuring a haunted castle,…

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👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼 1:05:10

4M ago1:05:10

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This week, Adam is joined by Naomi Klein, whose new book, Doppelganger is somehow both the most personal and the most all-encompassing of her works to date. Beginning with the highly destabilising, but very intimate experience of repeatedly being mistaken for someone else—someone whose beliefs are, in most respects, fundamentally different to Klein…

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Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland 56:17

4M ago56:17

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This week Adam is joined by Claire-Louise Bennett for a wide-ranging conversation, orbiting around Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland. They discuss writing, thought processes, class, Huysmans, Ann Quin, the imagination, home, the poetics of space . . . and much, much more. Find out more about Nightflowers here:…

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🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘 45:09

5M ago45:09

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Set in a near future in which a mysterious smog has enveloped the world, devastating crops and biodiversity, the narrator of Land of Milk and Honeytakes a job as a chef at an isolated mountain colony, run by a wealthy entrepreneur and his daughter, a visionary scientist. However, what she first takes to be little more than a decadent end-times holi…

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🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕 45:58

6M ago45:58

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Jo Ann Beard’s essays are surprising, insightful, thoughtful, and contains something new in each and every sentence. Recently published in the UK as The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard they combine the stylistic flair and pace of fiction, with the ineffable weight of the factual, creating in the reader a rare and profound sense of empathy. 'Too goo…

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👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️ 57:35

6M ago57:35

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If you thought life on Airstrip one was tough for Winston Smith, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Because in JULIA, Sandra Newman’s reimagining of Orwell’s nightmare, if men have it hard, you can bet women have it harder. Taking the roughly sketched character of Julia—Winston’s love interest and possible betrayer—Sandra Newman gives her a surname, a his…

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⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵ 1:08:13

7M ago1:08:13

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This episode Adam is joined by John Freeman to bid farewell to his game-changing literary journal Freeman’s. They discuss the pleasures and challenges faced in setting up and running a magazine John’s editorial philosophy, some of his favourite events, and why the final issue’s theme of “Conclusions” offers up more surprising avenues than readers m…

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Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen 1:02:16

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Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn 34:56

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Passive Real Estate Investors Need To Know This Before Filing Their 2023 Taxes! 56:12

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On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale 40:13

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Bidding adieu to Freeman’s literary journal, with Jakuta Alikavazovic, Deborah Landau, Juan Gabriel Vazquez, and John Freeman 54:16

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On Friendship, with Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen 57:08

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Love in the Time of Creative-Writing Classes, with Brandon Taylor 51:11

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Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects 52:30

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☕Proust Questionnaire: Holly McNish & Michael Pedersen☕ 1:23:37

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Economic Forecast and Commercial Real Estate Outlook For 2024 54:00

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YEAR-END TAX ERRORS THAT COULD COST REAL ESTATE INVESTORS THOUSANDS IN 2023-24! 52:38

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BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD 1:40:37

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😱On Witold Gombrowicz’s The Possessed, with Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Adam Thirlwell😱 1:05:28

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👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼 1:05:10

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Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland 56:17

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🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘 45:09

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🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕 45:58

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👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️ 57:35

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⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵ 1:08:13

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