Shakespeare and Company team up with Penguin Classics and Hay Festival for a star-studded reading of James Joyce’s ULYSSES, celebrating the novel’s 100th year.
To celebrate one hundred years since Sylvia Beach, publisher and bookseller, published James Joyce’s ULYSSES, the iconic bookshop Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is producing an ensemble recording of the complete text to be released as a free podcast between the 100th anniversary of the publication on 2nd February 2022 and Bloomsday on 16th June 2022.
The project was conceived by Shakespeare and Company Literary Director Adam Biles, and will include over one hundred writers, artists, comedians, and musicians from all over the world.
The readers include Will Self, Jeanette Winterson, Olivia Laing, Ben Okri, Ishion Hutchinson, Paul Murray, Deborah Levy, Caoilinn Hughes, Eddie Izzard, Margaret Atwood, Meena Kandasamy and the bookshop’s owner Sylvia Whitman, with other exciting names still to be released. The readings will be accompanied by a 10-episode “Bloomcast”, an entertaining primer for listeners, hosted by Adam Biles, alongside Professor Lex Paulson, and Alice McCrum, Programs Manager at the American Library in Paris.
To commemorate the centenary, Penguin Classics will publish a new, clothbound edition of ULYSSES with a bespoke cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith, which has been chosen as the official text for the recording. Penguin Classics will be supporting the readings with a host of social media and marketing activity including an online reading guide to ULYSSES, Instagram Live discussions, giveaways and more.
Hay Festival will also be hosting a series of live discussions and performances connected with the project at Hay Festival 2022 (26 May-5 June) and the celebration will culminate in a Bloomsday celebration at Shakespeare and Company, Paris, on 16th June.
Adam Biles, Literary Director of Shakespeare and Company, and the creator of this recording has said, “In order to celebrate the centenary of this gargantuan, sprawling, polyphonic and wildly ambitious work of literature it felt only right to attempt something a little bit crazy ourselves. We hope that this diverse celebration of Ulysses, read by some of the most brilliant contemporary writers and performers, and made freely available to listeners around the world, will introduce James Joyce's modernist masterwork to a whole new generation.”
Jessica Harrison, Publishing Director at Penguin Classics, has said “Ulysses was first printed by Shakespeare and Company in 1922, and Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, published the first British hardback edition in 1936. Many decades later, we are delighted to join Shakespeare and Company in celebrating Joyce’s epic masterwork in its centenary year.”
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read ULYSSES by James Joyce will launch on 2nd February 2022. A trailer is available to subscribe to now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most other podcast providers.
To celebrate one hundred years since Sylvia Beach, publisher and bookseller, published James Joyce’s ULYSSES, the iconic bookshop Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is producing an ensemble recording of the complete text to be released as a free podcast between the 100th anniversary of the publication on 2nd February 2022 and Bloomsday on 16th June 2022.
The project was conceived by Shakespeare and Company Literary Director Adam Biles, and will include over one hundred writers, artists, comedians, and musicians from all over the world.
The readers include Will Self, Jeanette Winterson, Olivia Laing, Ben Okri, Ishion Hutchinson, Paul Murray, Deborah Levy, Caoilinn Hughes, Eddie Izzard, Margaret Atwood, Meena Kandasamy and the bookshop’s owner Sylvia Whitman, with other exciting names still to be released. The readings will be accompanied by a 10-episode “Bloomcast”, an entertaining primer for listeners, hosted by Adam Biles, alongside Professor Lex Paulson, and Alice McCrum, Programs Manager at the American Library in Paris.
To commemorate the centenary, Penguin Classics will publish a new, clothbound edition of ULYSSES with a bespoke cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith, which has been chosen as the official text for the recording. Penguin Classics will be supporting the readings with a host of social media and marketing activity including an online reading guide to ULYSSES, Instagram Live discussions, giveaways and more.
Hay Festival will also be hosting a series of live discussions and performances connected with the project at Hay Festival 2022 (26 May-5 June) and the celebration will culminate in a Bloomsday celebration at Shakespeare and Company, Paris, on 16th June.
Adam Biles, Literary Director of Shakespeare and Company, and the creator of this recording has said, “In order to celebrate the centenary of this gargantuan, sprawling, polyphonic and wildly ambitious work of literature it felt only right to attempt something a little bit crazy ourselves. We hope that this diverse celebration of Ulysses, read by some of the most brilliant contemporary writers and performers, and made freely available to listeners around the world, will introduce James Joyce's modernist masterwork to a whole new generation.”
Jessica Harrison, Publishing Director at Penguin Classics, has said “Ulysses was first printed by Shakespeare and Company in 1922, and Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, published the first British hardback edition in 1936. Many decades later, we are delighted to join Shakespeare and Company in celebrating Joyce’s epic masterwork in its centenary year.”
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read ULYSSES by James Joyce will launch on 2nd February 2022. A trailer is available to subscribe to now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most other podcast providers.
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