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For the second part of this year's Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam get help from novelist Claire-Louise Bennett and Philosophy professor Foad Dizadji-Bahmani to explore how it challenges conventional ideas of narrative, language, and meaning. As always, our Bloomcasters invite listeners into a spirited and thought-provoking conversation that bridges literary analysis, philosophical inquiry, and personal reflections…before topping of the conversation with a game so contrived it would make Blazes Boylan blush.*Alice McCrum is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Princeton University. Before starting her graduate work, Alice lived in Paris, where she taught at the Sorbonne, studied public policy at Sciences Po-Paris, and directed cultural programming at the American Library in Paris. Lex Paulson is Director of Executive Programs at the UM6P School of Collective Intelligence (Morocco) and lectures in advocacy and human rights at Sciences Po-Paris. Trained in classics and community organizing, he served as mobilization strategist for the campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and Emmanuel Macron in 2017. He served as legislative counsel in the 111th U.S. Congress (2009-2011), organized on six U.S. presidential campaigns, and has worked to advance democratic innovation at the European Commission and in India, Tunisia, Egypt, Uganda, Senegal, Czech Republic and Ukraine. He is author of Cicero and the People's Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic, from Cambridge University Press, and is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance.Adam Biles is an English writer and translator based in Paris. He is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. In 2022, he conceived and presented Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses—an epic, polyphonic celebration of James Joyce's masterwork. Feeding Time, his first novel, was published by Galley Beggar Press in 2016. It was published by Editions Grasset in France in 2018 to great critical acclaim. His second novel, Beasts of England, was published in September 2023 by Galley Beggar Press, and will be published in 2025 by Editions Grasset. It was selected as a "2023 highlight" by The Guardian. A collection of his conversations with writers, The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews, was published by Canongate in October 2023 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Originally published by The Stinging Fly Press in Ireland on 2015, Claire-Louise Bennett's POND found a wider audience with its UK publisher, the then nascent Fitzcarraldo Editions—the paradigm-shifting house that is currently celebrating its 10th birthday. POND is an extraordinarily erudite book, which wears that erudition extraordinarily lightly. It could be understood as being in dialogue with writers such as Huysmans, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, John Berger, as well as with any number of contemporary authors who feel determined that their books should be about something. But POND is also funny, earthy, dirty, silly, profound and confounding. In short, it is unlike anything else, the kind of book that defies the “if you liked this, you'll like that” algorithm. Just the kind of book we love at S&Co.Buy Pond: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/pond*Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book, Pond, which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. Checkout 19 was published by Jonathan Cape in 2021 and was part of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection.Claire-Louise's fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including The White Review, The Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and The New York Times magazine. She also writes about art and is a frequent contributor to frieze. In addition she has written for Tate etc., and Artforum, and a number of international exhibition catalogues. In 2016 she was writer-in-residence at Temple Bar Gallery & Studio. In 2020, Milan based art publisher Juxta Press published Fish Out Of Water, an essay Claire-Louise wrote in response to a self-portrait painting by Dorothea Tanning. Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a surprising number of these works being commended for their innovative redeployment of literary tactics drawn from early twentieth-century literary modernism. But this strategy is not a new one. Across more than a century, writers from Kate O'Brien to Sally Rooney have manipulated and remade modernism to draw attention to the vexed nature of female privacy, exploring what unfolds when the amorphous nature of private consciousness bumps up against external ordering structures in the public world.  Living amid the tenaciously conservative imperatives of church and state in Ireland, their female characters are seen to embrace, reject, and rework the ritual of prayer, the fixity of material objects, the networks of the digital world, and the ordered narrative of the book. Such structures provide a stability that is valuable and even necessary for such characters to flourish, as well as an instrument of containment or repression that threatens to, and in some cases does, destroy them. The writers studied here, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, Anne Enright, Anna Burns, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride, employ the modernist mode in part to urge readers to recognize that female interiority, the prompt for many of the movement's illustrious formal experiments, continues to provide a crucial but often overlooked mechanism to imagine ways around and through seemingly intransigent social problems, such as class inequity, political violence, and sexual abuse. Disclaimer/apology: Slightly stormy conditions during the recording of the interview led to slightly reduced sound quality.

On this month's episode, host Nicole Flattery is joined by writer Claire-Louise Bennett to read and discuss Lucy Sweeney Byrne's short story, ‘To Cure a Body' originally published in Issue 35, Volume 2, a special Fear & Fantasy issue, guested edited by Mia Gallagher. You can access the story here. Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and went on to complete her debut book, Pond, which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. Checkout 19 was published by Jonathan Cape in 2021 and was part of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection. Her fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including The White Review, The Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and The New York Times magazine. She also writes about art and is a frequent contributor to frieze. In addition she has written for Tate etc., and Artforum, and a number of international exhibition catalogues. In 2016 she was writer-in-residence at Temple Bar Gallery & Studio. In 2020, Milan-based art publisher Juxta Press published ‘Fish Out Of Water', an essay Claire-Louise wrote in response to a self-portrait painting by Dorothea Tanning. Lucy Sweeney Byrne is the author of Paris Syndrome, a short story collection published by Banshee Press, that was met with critical acclaim and shortlisted for numerous awards, including The Edge Hill Prize. Her forthcoming collection, Let's Dance, is due for publication in the autumn. Lucy's short fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Southword, AGNI, Litro, Grist, 3:AM magazine, and other literary outlets. She also writes book reviews for The Irish Times. Lucy's writing has been made possible by The Arts Council of Ireland. Nicole Flattery is a writer and critic. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time, was published by The Stinging Fly and Bloomsbury in 2019. Her first novel, Nothing Special, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.   The Stinging Fly Podcast invites writers to choose a story from the Stinging Fly archive to read and discuss. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here. The podcast's theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes', by Divan. All of the Stinging Fly archive is available to subscribers.

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: https://moli.ie/nightflowers/*Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and her debut book, Pond, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. Claire-Louise's fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including White Review, Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and New York Times Magazine.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Op het Crossing Border Festival kregen Claire-Louise Bennett en de twee vertalers van Kassa 19, Karina van Santen en Martine Vosmaer, de Europese Literatuurprijs uitgereikt voor Bennetts roman. In Kassa 19 krabbelt een schoolmeisje verhalen achter in haar schoolschrift, en verandert terwijl ze opgroeit het leven om haar heen in brandstof voor haar schrijftalent. Een verhaal over schrijverschap en de kleine trauma's en triomfen die ons definiëren.Boeken FM vraagt zich af: verzet Bennett zich met haar manier van schrijven, zoals plotloosheid, tegen het idee van van zou ‘moeten', ofwel de verplichtingen van literatuur? Is het een geëngageerd boek? En is het analyseren van het schrijverschap door het op een petrischaal te leggen ook interessant voor een lezer?Plus: de winnaars van de prijsvraag over Huiswerk van Marja Pruis worden bekendgemaakt!Starbucks Comfort reading - KerstklassiekerCharlotte: Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes Ellen: T.H. White - The Once and Future King (Arthur) Joost: Donna Tartt - The Secret History Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lot en Luc hebben Chris de Jong van Uitgeverij Koppernik te gast. Met hem praten ze over Kassa 19 van Claire Louise Bennett, dat onlangs de Europese Literatuurprijs won. Maar, net zoals de roman van Bennett geen gewone roman is, is het gesprek geen gewoon gesprek. Er wordt naar woorden gezocht, afgetast, afgedwaald en weer […]

En este episodio Tamara y Gino Cingolani conversan sobre la película georgiana estoniana Mandarinas, un nuevo test de humanidad algo polémico, los videos de Tiktok que le intrigaron a Pablo y Buji no quiso analizar y la nueva novela de Claire-Louise Bennett.

The Spiders puzzle admiringly over Claire-Louise Bennett's Checkout 19, which uses interpolated stories and a fractured narrative to explore the barriers facing artistically inclined women in a sexist society. Special focus is given to the story of Tarquin Superbus, which so charmed us that we've perhaps had a difficult time exploring other aspects of the novel.

In "Kasse 19" erzählt Claire-Louise Bennett die Geschichte einer jungen Frau und ihren Tagträumen. Die sind viel spannender als ihre Arbeit im Supermarkt. Sie taucht in die Geschichten in ihrem Kopf ein - und nimmt die Lesenden mit. **********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.

New York in the late 1960s: Mae escapes a run-down an apartment, an alcoholic mother and her mother's occasional boyfriend to a new life as a typist for Andy Warhol, transcribing conversations with his friends and associates to provide the material for an unconventional novel. A mordantly funny investigation of celebrity, obsession, womanhood and sexuality, Nothing Special (Bloomsbury) is itself an unconventional debut novel, following on from Flattery's acclaimed short story collection Show Them a Good Time. Nicole Flattery discusses her novel with Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Pond and Checkout 19. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In dieser Folge mit Anika, Robin und Meike: „Wandering Souls“ von Cecile Pin, „Mirmar“ von Josefine Soppa und „Kasse 19“ von Claire-Louise Bennett. Papierstau Podcast on the road: Diesmal beim Alfred-Döblin-Preis in Berlin. Bei der von Günter Grass gestifteten Auszeichnung werden unveröffentlichte Prosa-Manuskripte prämiert - aber vorher wird im Literarischen Colloquium am Wannsee um die Wette gelesen. Wir haben den Gossip und verraten, was Euch von Thomas Hettche, Roman Ehrlich und natürlich Gewinner Jan Kuhlbrodt bald in Buchform erwartet!

Last year Claire-Louise Bennett and editor Josie Mitchell talked about rereading, resisting homogenisation and committing to the process of unravelling. Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, a collection of short stories, and the 2021 novel Checkout 19.Read an extract of Bennett's novel here.

In Episode 34 Shelf Help booksellers answer a question from Caleb -- "some of my favorite books are ones with allusions to other literary works, like the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. What other books like that series would the co-hosts recommend?" Recommendations included the unexpected - a picture book - A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers, as well as other novels the Wayward children series by Seanan McGuire, Check out 19 by Claire Louise Bennett, The Idiot by Elif Batuman, Mr. Penumbra's 24 hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan, Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, and the Magpie Murders series by Anthony Horowitz.Shelf Help is a podcast where booksellers help you answer one of life's trickier  - and we'd argue extremely important - questions: what should you read next?  If you've got a reading dilemma, you can email us a question or voice memo at shelfhelpuv@gmail.com. We're here to help your shelves. Shelf Help is a collaboration between the Book Jam, a nonprofit designed to inspire readers; CATV Upper Valley media community (NOW LOCATED AT JAM, Junction Arts & Media); three Upper Valley bookstores: Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, VT; the Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT; and Still North Books & Bar in Hanover, NH.  

Tutti i libri iniziati di recente e abbandonati per un motivo o per l'altro. E un libro che non vedo l'ora di finire. E a quanto pare esiste una parola giapponese per tutto questo.TRASCRIZIONE [ENG translation below]Ho iniziato a leggere un nuovo libro. Ebbene sì, nonostante ce ne siano un bel paio che ho iniziato e che non ho finito, io sono fatta così.Allora mi sono portata qua i libri che ho iniziato e voglio condividere con voi i titoli. Allora c'è Sabato di Ian McEwan, sono arrivata... a che pagina sono arrivata a pagina 56 boh, sì, lo stavo leggendo prima di addormentarmi, però mi stava facendo addormentare, quindi evidentemente non era abbastanza interessante. È un libro di 300 e rotte pagine, quindi diciamo che sono a un sesto, forse avrei dovuto continuare, forse lo riprenderò in mano.Non credo invece che riprenderò più in mano il libro di Kazuo Ishiguro Non lasciarmi. Questo libro, sono arrivata a pagina 35, e mi ricordo anche molto bene perché l'ho lasciato, perché non riuscivo a entrare nei personaggi. I personaggi erano preoccupati da cose che erano lontanissime dal mio mondo, ma anziché attirarmi, anziché rendermi curiosa, mi lasciavano, mi hanno lasciato assolutamente indifferente, anzi, mi hanno anche un po fatto arrabbiare.Poi ho iniziato e ho messo da parte, ma non abbandonato, The chosen and the beautiful di questa scrittrice molto brava, di cui tutti cantano le lodi, che si chiama Nghi Vo. Questo è interessante, ho letto un suo racconto che mi è piaciuto tantissimo e ho interrotto a pagina 41, ma semplicemente perché, non lo so, questo sicuramente lo riprendo in mano.Mi sto costringendo a leggere Check out 19, non so se l'abbiano tradotto in italiano, di questa autrice super osannata dappertutto, Claire-Louise Bennett. Tour de force pazzesco, dicono. Mah non lo so, io non riesco a entrarci in questo libro, non riesco proprio a capire che vuol dire, sono a pagina 64 su 225. Non lo so, non m'ha preso. Continuerò, mi sto sforzando perché se tutti ne parlano così bene può essere che sia io l'unica a non capirlo?Invece sto letteralmente divorando L'errore più geniale di Saverio Fattori, uno scrittore che ho scoperto da poco e di cui ho comprato tutti i libri che sono in circolazione perché mi è piaciuto tantissimo. Questo l'ho iniziato poche ore fa e sono arrivata a pagina 41 e come potete vedere quando il libro ti prende, ti prende, avevo voglia di un libro che mi prendesse e l'ho trovato. Questo lo finirò sicuramente oggi.Ho anche scoperto che la mania di prendere i libri e iniziarli e metterli da parte in giapponese ha un nome, si chiama tsundoku, è dal giapponese antico e significa 'tsunde' accumulare cose, 'doku', leggere, 'oku' lasciar perdere per un po'. Ecco, io lascerò per un po' perdere questi libri, mi concentrerò su quello di Saverio Fattori che mi piace molto.

Claire-Louise Bennett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Family Walls,” by Maeve Brennan, which was published in The New Yorker in 1973. Bennett has published two books of fiction, “Pond” and “Checkout 19.”

As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi. Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Claire-Louise Bennett, writer of “Checkout 19”, her first novel published by Jonathan Cape in 2021. Together, they talk about her writing process and the influence of drama on the construction of her characters. They also discuss her relationship with reading and the evolution of her work since "Pond", her first collection of short stories.

As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi. Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Claire-Louise Bennett, writer of “Checkout 19”, her first novel published by Jonathan Cape in 2021. Together, they talk about her writing process and the influence of drama on the construction of her characters. They also discuss her relationship with reading and the evolution of her work since "Pond", her first collection of short stories.Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19, Vintage Publishing, 2022.© The New York Times Company. All rights reserved. Used under license.© Goldsmiths Prize.Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond, Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2015. Copyright © Claire-Louise Bennett. 2015. Originally published in Ireland by The Stinging Fly Press, 2015.© The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize.© University of Roehampton.© The White Review.© The Stinging Fly.© Vogue Italia.© Frieze, tous droits réservés.Penguin Random House.© The Dublin Review.Witold Gombrowicz, Diary, Translated by Lillian Vallee, © Yale University Press, 2012.Günter Grass, The Tin Drum, Penguin, 2005.E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, Penguin, 2012.Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse [1954], Julliard, 2008.The Nobel Prize in LiteratureAnnie Ernaux, Getting Lost, Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2022. Copyright © Editions Gallimard, 2001. Translation copyright © Alison L. Strayer, 2022.Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost, Translated by Alison L. Strayer, © Seven Stories Press, 2022.Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion, Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2021. Copyright © Editions Gallimard, 1991. Translation copyright © Tanya Leslie, 1993.Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story, Seven Stories Press, New York, and Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2020. Copyright © Editions Gallimard, 2016. Translation copyright © Alison L. Strayer, 2020.Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story, Translated by Alison L. Strayer, © Seven Stories Press, 2020.Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, © Grove Press, 1997.Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, Penguin, 1992.

Er is alweer een heel jaar verstreken, maar er is nu alweer een nieuwe aflevering van Boven de Boekhandel! De boekverkopers van Hijman Ongerijmd hebben een jaar lang keihard gelezen om jou nu de beste boeken van het jaar te kunnen tippen. Verwacht in deze bomvolle aflevering oblongprentenboeken, eeuwen bestrijkende romans en duizelingwekkende encyclopedieën. Een jaar aan boekentips, live, Boven de Boekhandel! De boeken die je voorbij hoorde komen in deze aflevering: - Stargate - Ingvild H. Rishøi | €22,50 - Ongevraagd advies - Ester Naomi Perquin | €19,95 - Kassa 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett | €23,50 - Reis door de tijdperken - Aina Bestard | €21,99 - Companion piece - Aina Bestard | €22,99 (EN) | €22,50 (NL) - Encyclopedieën van de val - Marc Kregting | €27,50 - De straatwaarde van de ziel - Roel Bentz van den Berg | €22,99 - Planktonium - Jan van IJken | €49,99 - De vogel en de componist - Fernand Rochette | €24,90 - Het lied van ooievaar en drommedaris - Claire-Louise Bennett | €23,50 - Ik herinner me - Joe Brainard | €20,- - In het droomhuis - Carmen Maria Machado | €24,99 - Weerlicht - Jante Wortel | €22,50 - Pleegkind - Claire Keegan | €17,99 - Diepdiepblauw - Nikki Dekker | €22,99 www.hijmanongerijmd.nl

In Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett writes about the joy of reading, about when fiction becomes so vividly alive that you take it with you into the real world. Through a series of chapters - told in I-, she- and even we-form - we follow the main character's development from a little girl to an adult woman, through childhood, promiscuity and bad boyfriends. At the same time, there is a development from reader to author, but not without a series of derailments and tortuous detours: A meeting with a customer at the supermarket becomes the starting point for a detailed story about his background. An early self-written story emerges in the strangest directions. Claire-Louise Bennett's language is a cornucopia, and in a playful and original way she takes us into her rich and curious world.This conversation took place at the House of Literature in Oslo. On stage Bennet was joined by the Norwegian author and poet Amalie Kasin Lerstang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Möt Claire-Louise Bennett som är aktuell med romanen "Kassa 19". Vidare kommer Sven-Eric Liedman till studion med sin nya bok "I November", som handlar om att bli gammal. Claire-Louise Bennett slog igenom med romanen "Damm" och även hennes nya berättelse utmärker sig för sin ton och stil. "Kassa 19", som nu kommer i översättning av Carl-Johan Lind, handlar om en ung kvinnas väg mot att bli vuxen på 80- och 90-talet. Det är en värld där klassamhället i England ger henne få möjligheter att få ett jobb efter examen. Istället vänder hon sig inåt till böckernas värld."Det uppstår en konflikt inuti henne mellan de idéer om världen, framtiden och relationer som hon möter i böckerna, och den värld och de möjligheter hon har faktiskt omkring sig", säger Claire-Louise Bennett i Lundströms Bokradio.I boken finns också en omdebatterad scen där kvinnan i romanen utsätts för ett sexuellt övergrepp, men där hennes reaktion kan ses som ett sätt att förminska händelsen."Hon bär en ilska inom sig, men den är mer riktad mot samhället", säger Claire-Louise Bennett. I programmet möter ni också författaren och idéhistorikern Sven-Eric Liedman, som i boken "I November: om ålderdomen" skriver om hur det är att bli över åttio år."Det flesta som skriver om att åldras är själva omkring 60, och då har man mest en föreställning om hur det är", säger Sven-Eric Liedman i Lundströms Bokradio. Skriv till oss! bokradio@sverigesradio.seProgramledare: Marie Lundström Redaktion: Maria Askerfjord Sundeby och Daniel Sjölin

Når man tenker etter, er bøker noe nesten magisk. Tenk at litt dødt tre og blekk kan inneholde så mange utrolige verdener og fantastiske erfaringer. I Claire-Louise Bennetts roman Kasse 19 (til norsk ved Bjørn Alex Herrman) er bøkene nærmest talismaner: mystiske, forføreriske, transformative og fulle av uante hemmeligheter.Kasse 19 handler framfor alt om gleden ved å lese, om når fiksjonen blir så spill levende at du tar den med deg inn i den virkelige verden. Gjennom en rekke kapitler – fortalt i jeg-, hun- og til og med vi-form – følger vi utviklingen til hovedpersonens fra liten jente til voksen kvinne, gjennom barndom, fribløding og dårlige kjærester. Samtidig er det en utvikling fra leser til forfatter, men ikke uten en rekke avsporinger og snirklete omveier: Et møte med en kunde på supermarkedet blir utgangspunktet for en detaljert historie om bakgrunnen hans. En tidlig selvskrevet historie eser ut i de underligste retninger. Claire-Louise Bennetts språk er et overflødighetshorn, og på lekent og originalt vis tar hun oss med inn i sin rike og merksnodige verden.Bennett er britisk, og bor i dag i Irland. Hun debuterte med den kritikerroste romanen Dam i 2015, og hylles av forfattere som Chris Kraus og Karl-Ove Knausgård.Amalie Kasin Lerstang er forfatter av romanen Europa og diktsamlingen Vårs, samt redaktør for blant annet diktantologien En eller to eller hundrevis av søstre. På Litteraturhuset møter hun Bennett til samtale om fantasiens kraft og skaperglede hos kunstnere og lesere.Samtalen foregår på engelsk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Claire-Louise Bennett speaks to Violet Lucca about Louise Bourgeois's work and the process of free association she chose to document her experience of it. Bennett discusses what it means to regiment pain—the persistent subject of Bourgeois's work, her “business”—to the demands of form in writing. She follows other threads of association that weave together the artist's life and her own. Bennett's review of Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child and The Artist's Studio: A Century of the Artist's Studio 1920–2020 appears in the September issue. Read it here: https://harpers.org/archive/2022/09/louise-bourgeois-the-artists-studio-a-formal-feeling/ This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Madeleine Crum, with production assistance from Ian Mantgani.

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, spend a few minutes discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 by which Kirstyn was unfortunately struck down last month. She is not happy about it. The books up for discussion this month are Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi Demeester [4:10] and Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett [29:25]. Ian also heartily recommends Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett and Berg by Ann Quin. Congratulations are due to Ian as well for his recent nomination for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review! And a gracious reminder that Kirstyn's new collection, Hard Places, is available now from Trepidatio Publishing. If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 104:40 for final remarks. Next month, the two books on the slab will be: Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

Tatjana Gerhard toont een nieuwe reeks expressieve, kleurrijke schilderijen bij Plus One Gallery. Corinne Heyrman debuteert met Het begin en zijn oneindigheid, een roman over psychische kwetsbaarheid, verschenen bij De Arbeiderspers. Christophe Vekeman leest Kassa 19 van Claire-Louise Bennett, verschenen bij Koppernik. Een schoolmeisje uit de Britse arbeidersklasse ontdekt daarin haar liefde voor literatuur.

Claire-Louise Bennett reads her story “Invisible Bird,” from the May 30, 2022, issue of the magazine. Bennett is the author of the short-story collection “Pond” and the novel “Checkout 19,” which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. 

Hans en Chrétien bespreken de poëzieliefde van overleden popster Henny Vrienten, alsmede de wijsheden achteraf van NRC-essayist Bas Heijne. Verder zoomen ze in op de roman ‘Kassa 19' van Claire-Louise Bennett en het boekje ‘Late liefde' van Jannetje Koelewijn, over het bijzondere liefdesleven van neerlandica Margaretha H. Schenkeveld. In de Vestdijk-rubriek, met Rob van Essen, ditmaal de roman ‘De nadagen van Pilatus'. Luister, like en abonneer.

Writer and critic Margo Jefferson joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir. A formally inventive and exacting assemblage of personal history and deliberation that delves into Jefferson's familial legacy, her battles with depression, and the oppressive construct of the model minority, the book is also a cultural reflection. It touches on such subjects as Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Powell, Ike Turner, and Willa Cather, especially as they manifest in the author's conception of herself. With a kaleidoscopic sense of voice, Jefferson enacts here the constant toggle of the self, from the harshness of the superego to the curiosity, pain and enthusiasm of the child and most of all, the ingenuity of the writer. Also, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, to recommend Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul.

Writer and critic Margo Jefferson joins Kate Wolf to speak about her latest book, Constructing A Nervous System: A Memoir. A formally inventive and exacting assemblage of personal history and deliberation that delves into Jefferson's familial legacy, her battles with depression, and the oppressive construct of the model minority, the book is also a cultural reflection. It touches on such subjects as Ella Fitzgerald, Bud Powell, Ike Turner, and Willa Cather, especially as they manifest in the author's conception of herself. With a kaleidoscopic sense of voice, Jefferson enacts here the constant toggle of the self, from the harshness of the superego to the curiosity, pain and enthusiasm of the child and most of all, the ingenuity of the writer. Also, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, to recommend Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul.

The nameless narrator in author Claire-Louise Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19, absolutely loves books. Their mere presence puts her at ease. But her lifelong love of reading is, in part, because she feels let down by the people around her. Bennett told NPR's Scott Simon that loving to read is amazing, but there's a danger in always living other's experiences before having some of your own.

Pankaj Mishra joins Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about his new novel Run and Hide, which takes up many of the themes explored in his political non-fiction. Narrated by Arun, a literary translator, the book explores the lives of Arun, two of his friends from college, and Alia—a woman with whom he has an impactful romance—as they grapple with the moral and emotional scars they carry in the midst of an era-defining wave of economic globalization. Their story, as Run and Hide frequently points out, is also the story of modern India, a country in which the rapid changes upending centuries old inequities bear boons and costs with which all four characters must grapple. Also, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, returns to recommend Celia Paul's Letters to Gwen John.

Pankaj Mishra joins Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman to talk about his new novel, Run and Hide, which takes up many of the themes explored in his political nonfiction. The book explores the lives of the literary translator Arun — our narrator — two of his friends from college, and Alia, a woman with whom he has an impactful romance, as they all grapple with the moral and emotional scars of economic globalization. Their story, as Run and Hide frequently points out, is also the story of modern India, a country in which rapid changes to centuries-old inequities bear both great boons and great costs. Also, Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19, returns to recommend Celia Paul's Letters to Gwen John.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Claire-Louise Bennett, whose new novel is Checkout 19. It follows an unnamed young woman born into a working-class family, who is slowly discovering her own sense of self through the many books she reads and the stories she writes. Her relationship to her own experiences is partly filtered through the words of other writers, as she eventually attends college, finds work as a checkout clerk, in a grocery store, and dates a few inadequate, jealous men with literary ambitions of their own. The book seamlessly moves between literary analysis, fantastical storytelling, and life itself, eventually confronting the realities of sex, violence, and death. Also, Isaac Butler, author of The Method, returns to recommend Amanda Vaill's Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins.

Kate and Medaya are joined by Claire Louise Bennett whose new novel Checkout19 follows an unnamed young woman born into a working class family, who is slowly discovering her own sense of self through the many books she reads and the stories she writes. Her development and her relationship to her own experiences is partly filtered through the work of these other writers, as she eventually attends college, finds work as a checkout clerk in a grocery store and dates a few inadequate, jealous men, with literary ambitions of their own. The book seamlessly moves between literary textual analysis, fantastical storytelling, and life itself, eventually confronting the realities of sex, violence and death. Also, Isaac Butler, author of The Method, returns to recommend Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill.

Pages 155 - 164 │ Aeolus, part II │ Read by Claire-Louise BennettClaire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond, Fish Out of Water, and Checkout 19. Buy Checkout 19 here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9781787333550/checkout-19*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, subscribers now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Spotify here: https://anchor.fm/sandcoSubscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/Photo of Claire-Louis Bennett by Mark Waksh See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

5. bölüm yine bol havadisli, bol incelemeli. Tuğçe Arslan bu ara herkesin konuştuğu Euphoria'ya göz atıyor, Eylül Görmüş Céline Sciamma'nın yenisi Petite Maman'ı değerlendiriyor. Tamamlanan Berlin Film Festivali'nin ödülleri ile bu hafta gösterimleri başlayan Beni Sevenler Listesi ve Kuzu da radarımızda. Geçen hafta okuduklarımızdan Erlend Loe kitabı Kadının Fendi, Magda Szabo imzalı İza'nın Şarkısı, Evelyn Waugh'nun Flaş Haber'i ve Claire-Louise Bennett'in Gölet'i de bu bölümde didiklediklerimiz arasında. Ayrıca yeni çıkanlardan Nuri Bilge Ceylan söyleşileri kitabı, Bergman'ın Tezer Özlü çevirisiyle yayımlanan iki senaryosu, İhsan Oktay Anar'ın yenisi Tiamat ve Kolombiya'dan bir distopik roman olan Angosta da bu bölümde.

Claire-Louise Bennett's debut, Pond (Fitzcarraldo), has been a firm bookshop favourite since its release, for its unique, irreverent voice and attention to the parts of experience which go overlooked or unspoken. Checkout 19 (Jonathan Cape), the follow-up, is one of our most eagerly-anticipated books of 2021; Bennett was in conversation with Sheila Heti. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, we welcome one of the most innovative and fearless writers at work today, Claire-Louise Bennett, here to discuss CHECKOUT 19 a novel that explores class, freedom, adolescence, transcendence, sexual politics and artistic synthesis. Buy Checkout 19 here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9781787333550/checkout-19 Browse our online store here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/15/online-store/16/bookstore Become a Friend of S&Co here: https://friendsofshakespeareandcompany.com * * Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton, before moving to Ireland where she worked in and studied theatre for several years. In 2013 she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize and her debut book, Pond, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. Claire-Louise's fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including White Review, Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and New York Times Magazine. Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-time Listen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1

The sad news today of the death of The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, Paul McLoone pays tribute, Vigil is BBC drama from the producers of Line of Duty, Stephen Sexton shares poems from his new book, Cheryl's Destinies, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut Pond was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Checkout 19 is her first novel.

Described by Claire Louise Bennett as ‘lithe and ambitious' and by Toby Litt as ‘a miracle in book form', Isobel Wohl's debut Cold New Climate (Weatherglass) is likely to be one of the most talked about novels of 2021. Encompassing the limits and expectations of love, life and family and the devastation and elation each of those can bring, and our fears for a future that is disappearing as we speed towards it, it's a book that's vibrantly conscious of the modern world, and slyly conscious of the tradition it's coming from. Isobel Wohl was in conversation with Lauren Elkin, a fellow New Yorker, and author of Flaneuse. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry, hosts a series of brief conversations with fellow writers asking what is writing. What is its purpose and mystery beyond the pragmatic notions of academia and journalism? This series will form part of a visual archive highlighting the golden age of writing in Ireland. Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire and went on to study Literature and Drama at the University of Roehampton in London, before settling in Galway. She has had her essays and short fiction published in a number of publications including The Irish Times, The White Review, The Penny Dreadful and Gorse. In 2013, she was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize. With Pond, she presents her first collection of short stories. She has also received bursaries from the Irish Arts Council and Galway City Council. Her debut book, Pond, a collection of short stories, was published by The Stinging Fly (Ireland) and Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) in 2015, and was published by Riverhead (US) in 2016. The Laureate for Irish Fiction is an initiative of the Arts Council in partnership with University College Dublin and New York University.

In this month's episode of the podcast, Danny Denton is joined by novelist Conor O'Callaghan to read and discuss the essay 'Suddenly A Duck', by Claire-Louise Bennett. Conor O'Callaghan was born in Newry in 1968 and grew up in Dundalk. His first novel, Nothing on Earth, was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. His second novel, We Are Not in the World, is due to be published in February 2021. He has also published five collections of poetry, and a memoir: Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil War, an account of Roy Keane's departure from the 2002 FIFA World Cup squad. He currently lectures at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Claire-Louise Bennett's short fiction and essays have been published in several publications including The Moth and The Irish Times. She received the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in 2013. Her first book, Pond, was published in 2016 by The Stinging Fly Press. A novel, Checkout 19, will be published by Jonathan Cape next year. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites Irish writers to choose a story from the Stinging Fly archive to read and discuss. Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here. The podcast's theme music is ‘Sale of Lakes', by Divan. All of the Stinging Fly archive is available for everyone to read during the coronavirus crisis.

Søskendeforhold er udgangspunktet for romanen "Hummerens skjold". Tre voksne søskende husker deres opvækst vidt forskelligt. Moren døde, da de tre søskende var unge, og faren havde travlt med sit eget liv. Så de tre søskende har på hver deres måde lært at klare sig selv. Anbefalinger: Caroline Albertine Minor, Hummerens skjold. Claire-Louise Bennett, Dam. Malerier af Fairfield Porter. Medvirkende: Forfatter Caroline Albertine Minor. Vært: Anne Glad. Teknik: Kim Glad Wagner. Tilrettelægger: Mette Willumsen.

For this episode, we’re thrilled to be collaborating with the brilliant Fitzcarraldo Editions to bring you an exclusive extract from the audiobook of their modern classic Pond, performed by its author Claire-Louise Bennett. You can buy the audiobook from the publisher’s website www.fitzcarraldoeditions.com, and of course you can buy a physical copy of Pond from our online store, www.shakespeareandcompany.com where you can also find all manner of new and rare books, gifts, and tote bags, which we ship from Paris to wherever you are in the world. About Claire-Louise Bennett Claire-Louise Bennett grew up in Wiltshire in the southwest of England. Her short fiction and essays have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Penny Dreadful, The Moth, Colony, The Irish Times, The White Review and gorse. She was awarded the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in 2013 and has received bursaries from the Arts Council Ireland and Galway City Council. Pond is her first collection of stories. Music, as always, by Alex Freiman from his album, Play it Gentle, available on our online store: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/search?q=Alex+freiman&type=books

To support our work and listen to additional content, see here: https://patreon.com/yourshelf and follow us on social media @_yourshelf_. In our latest, fifth episode of The YourShelf Podcast, Everything Is Both, our chief curator Juliano Zaffino (Jay) sits down with author Rebecca Dinerstein Knight to discuss books, Norway, screenplays, Jenny Slate, and Rebecca's second novel, Hex. For full show notes, see here: https://podcast.yourshelf.uk/episodes/5. Thanks for listening.  LinksPatreonInstagramTwitterPodcastYourShelfEpisode NotesJay asks Rebecca about her bookshelves, the books that made her, and which authors she'd invite to a dinner party. (from 1:35)Rebecca begins the discussion with her first novel, The Sunlit Night, and the process involved in writing the screenplay for the film adaptation due out later in 2020. Rebecca and Jay discuss Rebecca's wide-ranging writing career, the impetus behind her latest novel Hex, creative friendships, obsession, the sophomore slump, and the doubleness of everything. (from 10:24)Finally, Rebecca hints at what her next projects are going to look like. (from 48:21)Jay recommends signing up to our Patreon for access to exclusive content, including a short bonus episode with more content from the interview, where Jay and Rebecca play a game of "Celebs Read Nice Tweets", and Rebecca answers some extra questions from Jay.Jay wraps up with all the books that were discussed in the episode and a few other books he recommends. Some of the books and authors we discussed in our latest episode include Kafka, Mark Strand, Louise Glück, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Nicole Sealey, Noah Warren; All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Independent People by Halldór Laxness, Changing by Liv Ullmann; Dante, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert; Little Weirds by Jenny Slate, Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, The Moomins by Tove Jansson, the short stories of Grace Paley, The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West, Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett; Michael Chabon, Walter Pater; Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino, A Burning by Megha Majumdar, and Riding With The Ghost by Justin Taylor. If you're looking for even more recommendations, especially in the age of social distancing, Jay has you covered. Recently, he's read and enjoyed Olivia Laing's Funny Weather, Seán Hewitt's Tongues of Fire, Martha Sprackland's Citadel, Sam Riviere's After Fame, and Deborah Levy's memoirs Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living.Also, Jay reminds that you can order a copy of his book of poems, the debut publication of The YourShelf Press, on yourshelf.uk/press.Rebecca Dinerstein Knight closes with a reading of the stunning 'Pharmakon' chapter in her new second novel Hex. (from 58:49)Buy, read and review Hex online now, available from most bookstores! Rebecca's first novel The Sunlit Night is also available for purchase, and her debut poetry collection Lofoten is available digitally.Thanks for listening and tune in again soon for Episode Six!

It took Amanda Goldblatt eight years to write her debut novel, HARD MOUTH. The result is a brilliantly inventive work combining style with emotional impact and classic storytelling. She and James talk about their long friendship, cutting the apocalypse, summoning (or not) imaginary beings, making rules for novels, and remembering the books they read as kids. Plus, Amanda's agent from Frances Goldin Literary Agency, Caroline Eisenmann.  - Amanda Goldblatt: https://amandagoldblatt.com/ Buy HARD MOUTH: Buy HARD MOUTH from your local indie bookstore! Amanda and James discuss:  Washington University  THE CUPBOARD  Eugene Pallette  Caroline Eisenmann  Turner Classic Movies  POND by Claire-Louise Bennett  MY MAN GODFREY  HATCHET by Gary Paulsen  THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON by Johann David Wyss Harry Potter THE HUNGER GAMES  E.T.  J Dilla  VOX  Notorious B.I.G.  Andre 3000  MF Doom  Talib Kweli  Kerri Webster  Gordon Lish  Gary Lutz  Amy Hempel  Sam Lipsyte  Christine Schutt  "The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Gary Lutz  Jim Shepard  Mary Ruefle  Tim O'Brien  Marilynne Robinson Denis Johnson  Cormac McCarthy  - Caroline Eisenmann: https://goldinlit.com/agents/ Caroline and James discuss:  NOON  James Salyer  Mary Gaitskill  Annie Proulx  Ottessa Moshfegh  Halle Butler  Claire Messud  Nell Zink  Garth Greenwell  Jack Kerouac  Ernest Hemingway  I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM by Peter Kispert  ICM  GOING DUTCH by James Gregor  Simon & Schuster  THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P by Adelle Waldman  THE LONGING FOR LESS: LIVING WITH MINIMALILSM by Kyle Chayka - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Em and Jess discuss Pond by Claire Louise Bennett...and finally disagree with each other about something. Will their friendship survive? 

Our first podcast of 2018 sees June Caldwell pick Claire-Louise Bennett's powerful and deeply unsettling 'Morning, 1908' to read and discuss with Sally Rooney.

In the January 2018 episode, Juliet is joined by Jonathan Coe (author of 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' and many other works) and Jennifer Hodgson (editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of stories and fragments by Ann Quin). They discuss Britain's fertile post-war 'experimental' literary scene: its cultural contexts, its successes and failures, and its legacy. WORKS REFERENCED NOVELS Paul Ableman – I Hear Voices (1958) Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954) Francis Booth - Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980 (1982) John Braine – Room at the Top (1957) Alan Burns – The Angry Brigade: A Documentary Novel (1974) Robert Burton – The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Jonathan Coe – An Accidental Woman (1987) Jonathan Coe – Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (2004) Jonathan Coe – What a Carve-Up! (1994) Henry Green - Caught (1943) Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon (1939) Rayner Heppenstall – Four Absentees (1960) Rayner Heppenstall – The Fourfold Tradition (1961) Rayner Heppenstall – The Lesser Infortune (1953) Rayner Heppenstall – Saturnine (1943) Rayner Heppenstall & Michael Innes – Three Tales of Hamlet (1950) B. S. Johnson – Aren’t You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? (1973) B. S. Johnson – Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1971) B. S. Johnson – See the Old Lady Decently (1973) B. S. Johnson – Travelling People (1963) B. S. Johnson – The Unfortunates (1969) Anna Kavan – Ice (1967) D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Rosamund Lehmann – The Echoing Grove (1953) Iris Murdoch – Under the Net (1954) George Orwell – Animal Farm (1945) John Osborne – Look Back in Anger (1956) Ann Quin – Berg (1964) Ann Quin – Passages (1969) Ann Quin – Three (1966) Ann Quin – Tripticks (1972) Ann Quin – The Unmapped Country (edited by Jennifer Hodgson, 2018) Alan Sillitoe – Raw Material (1972) Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1766) David Storey – This Sporting Life (1960) Philip Tew, B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (2001) John Wain – Hurry On Down (1953) Colin Wilson – The Outsider (1956) AUTHORS (a selection) J. G. Ballard, Richard Beard, Samuel Beckett, Rosalind Belben, John Berger, Claire-Louise Bennett, Christine Brooke-Rose, Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, William S. Burroughs, John Calder, Angela Carter, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Robert Creeley, Marguerite Duras, Eva Figes, Patrick Hamilton, Wilson Harris, James Joyce, Chris Kraus, Hari Kunzru, David Lodge, Eimear McBride, Nicholas Mosley, Thomas Nash, Jeff Nuttall, Robert Nye, Flann O'Brien, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Will Self, Penelope Shuttle, Claude Simon, Stevie Smith, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Swift, Emma Tennant, Philip Toynbee, Alexander Trocchi, John Wheway, Heathcote Williams FILMS/TV B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (London Weekend Television programme, 1971) Calling Mr. Smith (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1943) Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (dir. Paul Tickell, 2001) The Eye and the Ear (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1944) Last Year in Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais, 1961) London Film-Makers' Co-operative Peter Whitehead Independent Group (British Pop Art collective, 1952-55) ARTICLES Hélène Cixous, ‘Le roman experimental de Grand-Bretagne’ (Le Monde, 1967)

Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is delighted to present a reading by Gavin Corbett and Claire-Louise Bennett. The writers will be introduced by Susan Tomaselli, founder and editor of gorse journal. These two outstanding writers have been commissioned by TBG+S in an experimental programme that aims to support different kinds of writing about art. Gavin Corbett is TBG+S’ third commissioned writer. Claire-Louise Bennett was the commissioned writer in 2016 and Sara Baume in 2015. For this programme, writers are invited to write short pieces - taking their own tack, fictional or otherwise - in response to the five gallery exhibitions that take place over the course of a year. The writings are published on our website and available in our gallery. Claire-Louise Bennett and Gavin Corbett are writers of immense talent. They are part of a new generation of Irish writers gaining international recognition for the new-found vitality of their writing - pushing boundaries in contemporary, experimental fiction. Claire-Louise Bennett has been praised for her ambitious, imaginative and innovative prose. Jial Tolento of the New Yorker praised her debut Pond, calling it ‘a work of fiction that will make you feel pleasantly insane’. Matthew Adams, of the Guardian, called Gavin Corbett ‘one of the most inventive and beguiling writers of contemporary fiction’. The Irish Times, in praise of his latest novel, Green Glowing Skull, called it ‘a blizzard of imaginative energy… prose sings on every page - while it slips its strangeness in.’

Ark Audio Book Club #19 Pond, by Claire-Louise Bennett by Ark Audio

I talk about Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond (2016) with the excellent Barbara McClay. Subscribe to her tinyletter here, and here are the two essays of hers that I mention on the show: What’s Love Got to Do With It Everyday Barbara … Continue reading →

John Wilson hosts the BBC National Short Story Award live from the BBC Radio Theatre. This year's shortlisted authors are Hilary Mantel, K J Orr, Tahmima Anam, Claire-Louise Bennett and Lavinia Greenlaw. Four of the five join John on stage to discuss their stories and explore the art of writing a short story. The winner of the £15000 prize will be announced by Chair of Judges, Jenni Murray.In addition, Radio 1 DJ Alice Levine will announce the winner of the BBC Young Writer's Award.The BBC National Short Story Award is presented in conjunction with BookTrust.Presenter John Wilson Producer Rebecca Armstrong.

Daniel Radcliffe talks about his two new and very different films: in one he's an FBI agent who infiltrates a white supremacist group, in the other he's a farting corpse.Eimear McBride's new novel, The Lesser Bohemians, has been much praised for the fresh and frank way it portrays sex. Professor Sarah Churchwell and novelist Matt Thorne join Samira to discuss the literary art of turning sex into prose.The South African artist William Kentridge discusses his new exhibition Thick Time, which features drawing, film, opera, dance, tapestry and sculpture, much of it influenced by his experience of living in apartheid and post-apartheid Johannesburg. And today's shortlisted author for the BBC National Short Story Award is Claire-Louise Bennett whose short story, Morning, Noon and Night, is narrated by a woman who lives by herself on the West coast of Ireland and spends much of her time with her memories.Presented by Samira Ahmed Produced by Ella-mai Robey.

We’re delighted to present Claire-Louise Bennett on her extraordinary and highly-praised debut collection, Pond (Fitzcarraldo Editions), currently shortlisted for the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize.

Claire-Louise Bennett and Joanna Walsh met at the London Review Bookshop to read from and discuss their new books, Pond (Fitzcarraldo Editions) and Hotel (Bloomsbury). The discussion was chaired by Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (Penguin). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.