"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it."
What a star Marjane was...
We're devastated to hear the news about Marjane Satrapi. She came to our festival in 2008 and was a pure force of nature. Wise, funny, engaging. This is a big loss.
(Photo taken by Justin Westover during the festival)
"This was not a book of discovery. It is a book of reportage of the heart." Arundhati Roy on Mother Mary Comes to Me, in our latest @shakespeareandcompany.com interview.
One hundred years ago today, a baby was born with a HOWL!
Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997). Poet, prophet, and one of the great friends of our bookshop.
(Photo by Jack Hazzard from the Shakespeare and Company archives)
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The first episode of our podcast with Shakespeare & Co is now available
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Adam Biles and Ella Griffiths are joined by novelist and performer Taìno Mendez to discuss Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes by Henry Van Dyke, the 20th title in the Faber Editions imprint.
"Words struggle, in a way, to express some deep essence of our existence. They seem to slide off the surface all too often." David Szalay on the limits of language.
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"My book came out, and they were talking about this false naive style of drawing. There was nothing false about the naivety of my style. I couldn't draw better. This is it."
What a star Marjane was...
Shakespeare and Company’s Adam Biles talks to Arudhati Roy about her first memoir and her early life in India.
Faber has teamed up with independent Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company on a "landmark" new podcast, Editions: A Shakespeare and Company x Faber Production.
🎙️ It's here! Editions, a new podcast from us and @faberbooks.bsky.social, celebrating radical literary voices. It launches today with Henry Van Dyke's Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes (1965), featuring Taíno Mendez in conversation with Adam Biles & Ella Griffiths.
🎧https://pod.fo/e/4209d2
🎙️ It's here! Editions, a new podcast from us and @faberbooks.bsky.social, celebrating radical literary voices. It launches today with Henry Van Dyke's Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes (1965), featuring Taíno Mendez in conversation with Adam Biles & Ella Griffiths.
🎧https://pod.fo/e/4209d2
We're devastated to hear the news about Marjane Satrapi. She came to our festival in 2008 and was a pure force of nature. Wise, funny, engaging. This is a big loss.
(Photo taken by Justin Westover during the festival)
We're devastated to hear the news about Marjane Satrapi. She came to our festival in 2008 and was a pure force of nature. Wise, funny, engaging. This is a big loss.
(Photo taken by Justin Westover during the festival)
