Best Eileen Mason Podcasts (2024)

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When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru 56:55

8d ago56:55

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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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Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries 50:07

20d ago50:07

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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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BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd! 57:26

22d ago57:26

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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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Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities 1:03:03

30d ago1:03:03

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

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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

2M 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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S2 #40 / Phil Hine on Chakras and western esotericism 1:04:32

2M ago1:04:32

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Today we welcome Phil Hine back to the show to discuss his new book; Wheels within wheels. Phil has been a practising Occultist for over forty-five years, with a career spanning Wicca, Ritual Magic, Chaos Magic and nondual Tantra. Together with Rodney Orpheus he co-created and edited the UK’s first monthly Pagan magazine, Pagan News (1988-92). His …

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S2 #39 / Michael Lichens on The Pope's Exorcist, Fr Amorth 38:53

2M ago38:53

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Today we are joined by returning guest Michael Lichens on the newly translated Amorth book, Get Behind Me Satan. This new book dives into the daily life and work of Rome's chief exorcist, shedding light on a misunderstood vocation. In the show we get into: How an exorcist “diagnoses” a demonic attack. The six types of demonic disturbances and how o…

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

2M 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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S2 #38 / Colby Sammon on Vajrayana, Tantra and the Phurba 50:04

3M ago50:04

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Colby Sammons is a practicing sorcerer, occultist, and Buddhist specializing in Tibetan tantric sorcery. He specializes in teaching occult meditations and techniques but also offers ritual work and divination via his Instagram page. A proponent of Vajrayana Buddhism and Tantra Colby takes us through how practices within these areas have improved hi…

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S2 #37 / Briar of the Greene Chapel on Land, Lore and Language 59:58

3M ago59:58

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Today we welcome Briar of The Greene Chapel to the Spirit Box. Briar is a traditional witch, cunning woman, and fairy doctor. Her work is invested in the sorcerous duality of healing and harming and in furthering her relationship with the hidden by cultivating and deepening meaningful bonds with gods and ungods alike and exploring one’s own soul an…

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

3M 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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S2 #36 / Anon Omous, Visions of Yaldabaoth 1:01:23

3M ago1:01:23

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Today we are joined by author Anon Omous who takes us through his extraordinary mystical experiences which changed his life and his understanding of the world. Diagnosed with schizophenia these experiences were challenging and brutal at times culminating in an waking vision of what he believes to be the entity Yaldabaoth. It really is a fascinating…

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S2 #35 / Celeste Mott on Witchcraft and Catholicism 1:07:14

3M ago1:07:14

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Celeste Mott is a poet, a writer, a witch and a practicing catholic. Back on SB for a second stint Celeste takes us through her journey into practising Magic and Catholicism and regales us with the brilliant story of how she summoned her boyfriend. In the plus show we get into how magick working can trigger your shadow. Dealing with your magick bei…

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

3M 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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S2 #34 / Austin Fuller on Perfume, Roses and Ordeals. 1:03:18

4M ago1:03:18

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Austin Fuller is a Folk Witch living in the pine Flats of west-Central Florida, amongst the sea, swamp, and forest. A perfumer, conjuror, diviner, and artist, Austin traffics with spirits at the crossroads, intersecting witchcraft and art. They are the sole operator of BanxBramble on Instagram and banexbramble.com and a cohost on Southern Bramble: …

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

4M 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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S2 #33 / Teila Verch Dywenys on Clooties, the Dark Man & Dark Mother 58:35

4M ago58:35

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Teila Verch Dywenys is a traditional witch and founder of The Cleaner Clootie Campaign, set up in 2018 in response to the growing proliferation of plastic objects left as offerings at her nearest Henge at Knowlton Grange in Dorset. Witnessing first hand how this trend has proliferated widely outside the Pagan Community (fuelled by social media and …

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

4M 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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S2 #32 / Lisette Coly on Eileen J. Garrett & Lucifer 1:02:49

5M ago1:02:49

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Beginning in her early childhood, the world-famous trance medium and grande dame of parapsychology Eileen J. Garrett had numerous encounters with an entity she called the "Noble Stranger." When she asked his identity one day, this mysterious figure responded, "You may call me Lucifer." Call me Lucifer: Dialogues with a Noble Stranger, features Garr…

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

5M 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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S2 #31 / David Halpin on Banshees, Cenobites and the Púca 1:05:39

5M ago1:05:39

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Hailing from Carlow, Ireland, David Halpin is a writer with a deep knowledge of Ireland’s fairy lore and pagan heritage. On his facebook blog, Circle Stories, he explores these themes in great depth. David is also the creative force behind Occult Book Review on Twitter and YouTube. What I really love about David’s work is he is an active participan…

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

5M 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

5M 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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When Radical Art meets Obscene Wealth, with Hari Kunzru 56:55

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Sheila Heti on Alphabetical Diaries 50:07

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BONUS: Celebrating Dylan Thomas with Cerys Matthews…with exclusive live music from Flora Hibberd! 57:26

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Viet Thanh Nguyen on Memory, Migration and Model Minorities 1:03:03

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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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S2 #40 / Phil Hine on Chakras and western esotericism 1:04:32

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S2 #39 / Michael Lichens on The Pope's Exorcist, Fr Amorth 38:53

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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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S2 #38 / Colby Sammon on Vajrayana, Tantra and the Phurba 50:04

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S2 #37 / Briar of the Greene Chapel on Land, Lore and Language 59:58

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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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S2 #36 / Anon Omous, Visions of Yaldabaoth 1:01:23

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S2 #35 / Celeste Mott on Witchcraft and Catholicism 1:07:14

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

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S2 #34 / Austin Fuller on Perfume, Roses and Ordeals. 1:03:18

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

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S2 #33 / Teila Verch Dywenys on Clooties, the Dark Man & Dark Mother 58:35

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

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S2 #32 / Lisette Coly on Eileen J. Garrett & Lucifer 1:02:49

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

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S2 #31 / David Halpin on Banshees, Cenobites and the Púca 1:05:39

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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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