The Shakespeare and Company Interview Creators & Guests

Dolly Alderton is a journalist, writer, and author. She hosts the show Love Stories.

Michael Chabon is an American novelist and short story writer. Since 2016, Chabon has been an outspoken critic of Donald Trump.

Ishion Hutchinson is a poet and essayist. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Cornell University and is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art.Hutchinson's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Narrative, Granta, The Huffington Post, and New Letters. His first book, the poetry collection, "House of Lords and Commons," was published in 2016. His second collection, "Far District," was published in 2020.

Eliot Higgins is a writer.

Daniel Trilling is a journalist, editor, and author.

Miriam Toews is a writer and author.

Tash Aw is a Malaysian writer, novelist, and author of the book "We, the Survivors".

Lionel Shriver is an author and journalist known for Literary Review.

Sara Baume is an author.Baume's short fiction and essays have been published in anthologies and journals. She won the 2014 Davy Byrne’s Short Story Award, the 2015 Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, and the 2015 Rooney Prize for Literature. Her first novel, "Spill Simmer Falter Wither," was published in 2015.Baume received her M.Phil. in Fine Art from Trinity College Dublin.

Hari Kunzru is a novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, and White Tears.

Kristen Roupenian is a writer.Roupenian is best known for her 2017 short story "Cat Person." Her first book, a collection of short stories called "You Know You Want This," was published in 2019.Roupenian was raised near Boston. She received her degree from Barnard College, her M.F.A. from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. in English from Harvard.

Falen Johnson is a Mohawk and Tuscarora playwright and broadcaster.

Madeline Miller is a novelist and author of The Song of Achilles and Circe.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is an American and British writer. Her novels include Harmless Like You, which received a Betty Trask Award and the 2017 Author's Club First Novel Award and Starling Days.

Nicole Krauss an author.Krauss's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40, and has been collected in several Best American Short Stories anthologies. Her first novel, "Man Walks into a Room," was published in 2002.Krause received her B.A. in English from Stanford University and her M.A. in Art History from Oxford University.

Rebecca Solnit is a writer. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.

Ayşegül Savaş is a writer. She was raised in Turkey and Denmark, then attended Middlebury College in Vermont. She teaches at the Sorbonne. Her first novel, "Walking on the Ceiling," was published in 2019. She has published three novels.

Caroline Criado Perez is a feminist author, journalist, and activist.

Claire-Louise Bennett is an author. Bennet's fiction and essays have appeared in 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., Artforum, and a number of international exhibition catalogues.Bennett's first book, "Pond," was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second book, "Checkout 19," was published in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.In 2016, Bennett was writer-in-residence at Temple Bar Gallery & Studio.