Best Nick Everett Podcasts (2024)

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

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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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Direct From the Desert: Firebirds Playoff Special 1:24:04

3h ago1:24:04

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Road trip! Nick and Grant have traveled south to sunny Coachella Valley to bring you the latest from Acrisure Arena as the Firebirds get ready to play their first home game of the 2024 AHL Calder Cup Playoffs. First up: Ryker Evans, Shane Wright, John Hayden, and Chris Driedger chat with Nick about the first two games of the series against the Calg…

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Podcast episode 39: Interview with Ingrid Piller on Life in a New Language 26:10

6d ago26:10

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In this interview, we talk to Ingrid Piller about her forthcoming co-authored book Life in a New Language. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 38 Kachru, Braj B. 1985. ‘Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: The English language in the outer circle’, in English in the world: Teaching and learni…

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

11d 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

28d 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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Dispatch from the Desert 1:22:24

1M ago1:22:24

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The podcast looks south to sunny Coachella Valley to check in with the voice of the Firebirds, Evan Pivnick. Evan regales us with tales of his career path from Bowling Green State University to the AHL and everything in between. Nick and Evan also provide a nice preview for the Firebirds upcoming playoff run, letting us know what to watch for as th…

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Podcast episode 38: Interview with Dan Everett on C.S. Peirce and Peircean linguistics 23:47

1M ago23:47

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In this interview, we talk to Dan Everett about the life and work of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and Everett’s application of Peirce’s ideas to create a Peircean linguistics. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 38 Cole, David. 2023. “The Chinese Room Argument”, The Stanford Enc…

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

1M 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

2M 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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Lucky Number 13 1:14:46

2M ago1:14:46

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Nick welcomes Piper Shaw of ROOT Sports for our latest installment of the podcast. They discuss Piper's beginnings in St. Cloud, MN, her path to Seattle, and what motivates her to tell the stories of the Kraken. Piper and Nick give analysis on the trade deadline moves by GM Ron Francis and how that sets the team up for a final playoff push.…

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Anson "Ace" Carter 48:12

2M ago48:12

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It's the one year anniversary of the podcast! To help us celebrate, Nick has brought in former player and current TNT and MSG studio analyst Anson Carter to discuss his journey from growing up in Scarborough, Ontario to the NHL, where he played for eight different teams. Anson also talks about his experience as a Black player in college and profess…

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Podcast episode 37: Interview with Michael Lynch on conversation analysis and ethnomethodology 27:22

2M ago27:22

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In this interview, we talk to Michael Lynch about the history of conversation analysis and its connections to ethnomethodology. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 37 Button, Graham, Michael Lynch and Wes Sharrock (2022) Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis and Constructive Analysis: On Formal Structures …

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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

3M 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

4M 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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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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Winter Classic Wrap Up 1:14:53

4M ago1:14:53

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The Seattle Kraken have kicked off 2024 in style with a shutout win at the Winter Classic! Host Nick Olczyk has brought in ROOT Sports' very own Eddie Olczyk, JT Brown, and John Forslund to talk about their experiences at T-Mobile Park on New Year's Day. The crew reminisce about past outdoor games and how the Kraken look as a team coming into the s…

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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

5M 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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Episode 10 Listener Question Extravaganza! 1:26:47

5M ago1:26:47

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The big 1-0! You asked, we listened. Host Nick and Producer Grant sit down and discuss questions submitted by the listeners and Kraken fans from inside Climate Pledge Arena during a recent pregame. Topics include the rules of hockey, Coachella Valley Firebirds prospects, how coaches and GMs make their moves, and the upcoming Winter Classic.…

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

5M 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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Podcast housekeeping December 2023 1:13

5M ago1:13

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In this brief audio clip, we provide an update on what’s been happening with the podcast – and what’s coming up. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Entry in the Edinburgh University Press catalogue…

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

6M 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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