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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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Each episode of 'V H US' features host Dirk Marshall having an in-depth talk with various guests about that week's cult film and what it is like to have the profession portrayed (sometimes very loosely) in the film. Dirk Marshall was raised in a mom and pop video store in a small town. Growing up amongst the illustrious backdrop of VHS Box art, he learned about the world from the works of William Friedkin, Frank Henenlotter, and Penelope Spheeris. Now on VH US he sits down with people who's ...
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Mango: Dead Serious is an action-packed feature-length audio drama from Hard 90 Productions. Stay tuned for "Mango 2" now in development! Storyline: After saving virologist Dr. Charlotte Fox from a vicious attack deep in the mountains outside Los Angeles, Johnny Mango learns a virus has swept the globe causing a worldwide zombie outbreak. In order to continue her work on the vaccine, Dr. Fox must find her uncle whose last known whereabouts were 100 miles away in Joshua Tree. Mango, Dr. Fox a ...
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Season 17 : Episode 7 - Horror Movie Soundtrack Mixtape ( Featuring Heather Drain )
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Find Heather: https://www.mondoheather.com Find us: https://vhuspodcast.threadless.com https://www.patreon.com/vhusBy heather drain, dirk marshall
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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry”
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This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leave one’s home. It’s about attempting to lay down roots elsewhere. It’s about the mystery, banality, and all-consuming nature of love. It’s about the dynamics of friendship, and how those are stress-test…
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Season 17 : Episode 6 - Stand Alone Horror Movie Draft ( Featuring Lindsay Wilkins & Ryan Gowland )
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Find Lindsay: https://x.com/readandgeek Find Ryan: https://newworldpicturespodcast.com Find Dirk: https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy Lindsay wilkins, Ryan gowland, dirk marshall
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Season 17 : Episode 5- Horror Movie Sequels Draft (Featuring Sarah of Geeks Who Eat & Carmelita Valdez McKoy)
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Find Carmelita: https://x.com/CarmelitaSays https://letterboxd.com/carmelitasays/ Find Sarah: https://finalgirlsfeast.libsyn.com https://2geekswhoeat.com Find Dirk: https://vhuspodcast.threadless.com https://www.patreon.com/vhusBy Carmelita Valdez mckoy, dirk marshall, geeks who eat, final girls feast
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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
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For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the temperature (and the pulse!) of the book industry, from bookshops, to publishers, to prizes, to festivals... Enjoy! Buy The Shakespeare and Company Book…
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Season 17 : Episode 4- Moon Child (Featuring Carmelita Valdez McKoy)
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Find Carmelita: https://x.com/CarmelitaSays https://letterboxd.com/carmelitasays/ Find Sarah: https://x.com/spicymarshall https://www.instagram.com/spicymarshall/ Find Us: https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy carmelita Valdez mckoy, Sarah marshall, dirk marshall
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Season 17 : Episode 3 - Orgazmo ( Featuring Sosha Belle )
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Find Sosha: https://x.com/SoshaBelleXXX https://www.patreon.com/NoWorriesFilmFestival/shop/distance-sex-work-in-pandemic-273654?source=storefront https://x.com/BelleSosha https://www.facebook.com/filmchiral Find Us: https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy Sosha belle, dirk marshall
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Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024)
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Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to the south of France, charged—by forces unknown—with infiltrating and sowing chaos at a commune of eco-warriors, her mission leads her into exhilarating reflections on activism, on charisma, on neandertha…
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Season 17 : Episode 2 - Hawk Jones ( Featuring Ryan Gowland)
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Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before. Set in Syracuse in 412 BC, after the catastrophic attempt by Athens to invade the city, Lampo and Gelon, two out-of-work potters, have the harebrained idea of staging a pr…
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Season 17: Episode 1 - Sole Survivor (Featuring Joshua Johnson)
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Find Joshua Johnson: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2367776/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Find us: https://www.instagram.com/vhus_podcast/ https://x.com/VHUS_Podcast https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy Joshua Johnson, Dirk Marshall
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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…
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Poetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of Instructions
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School of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Midd…
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Michael Donkor on Grow Where They Fall
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This week’s guest is Michael Donkor whose new novel Grow Where They Fall is a meticulous and tender exploration of two formative moments in the life of one Kwame Akromah, twenty years apart. Kwame is Black, Gay, British of Ghanian descent, a dedicated teacher, a dependable friend—character traits and conditions of life that weave around each other …
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Writing Against Normality, with Samanta Schweblin
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The seven stories in Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses are not just about houses—how they contain us, how they constrain us—but are also about the families compressed in them, the objects stored in them, the neighbours that circle them…and the trauma that has soaked into their walls over years past, and that is now seeping slowly out, poisonin…
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Parenting in the age of AI, with Helen Phillips
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So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? Wha…
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Season 16 : Episode 11 - ROAD KILL (Featuring Ken Potocki)
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Find Ken: https://x.com/Cimozzen1 https://www.instagram.com/kenpotocki/ Find us: https://x.com/VHUS_Podcast https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy ken potocki, dirk marshall
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Creating Life from Art, with Catherine Lacey
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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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Season 16 : Episode 10 - SPAWN (Featuring Ryan Gowland & Patrick Vicious)
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Find Ryan: https://newworldpicturespodcast.com Find Patrick: https://x.com/ChainsawsClaws https://x.com/alleywaykrew Find Dirk: https://vh-us.com https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy Patrick Bartlett, Ryan Gowland, dirk marshall
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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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Season 16: Episode 9 : ARCADE (Featuring Nolan McBride )
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Mango: Dead Serious is an action-packed feature-length audio drama from Hard 90 Productions. Stay tuned for "Mango 2" now in development! Storyline: After saving virologist Dr. Charlotte Fox from a vicious attack deep in the mountains outside Los Angeles, Johnny Mango learns a virus has swept the globe causing a worldwide zombie outbreak. In order …
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Season 16: Episode 8 : Lady Snowblood & Stray Cat Rock- Delinquent Girl Boss ( Featuring Wendi Freeman )
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Find Wendy: https://x.com/DFWendi https://www.instagram.com/wfreeman2112/ Find Dirk: https://www.instagram.com/vhus_podcast/ https://x.com/VHUS_Podcast https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy wendi freeman, dirk marshall
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Claire Kilroy on Parenting under the Patriarchy
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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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Season 16: Episode 7: Devil Doll 1936, 1964, & the band ( Featuring Heather Drain )
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Find Heather" https://www.mondoheather.com https://x.com/mondoheather Find Dirk: https://x.com/VHUS_Podcast https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy Heather Drain, Dirk Marshall, Mondo Heather, Aesthetic Perfection, Daniel Graves
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Season 16: Episode 6- COLD HELL ( Featuring Lindsay Wilkins )
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Find Lindsay: https://x.com/readandgeek https://www.instagram.com/schlockandawe1/ Find us: https://www.patreon.com/vhus https://vhuspodcast.threadless.comBy Lindsay wilkins, dirk marshall, schlock and awe podcast, vhus podcast
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