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Three avid book readers discuss, dissect, and disagree. Each week, this book podcast dives into a new subgenre to open your minds to new books! SSS Warning- swears, sex, and spoilers ahead!!! Oh yeah, and a whole lot of laughs.

Follow us on Instagram for hilarious bookish content, our Patreon Book Club episodes, and more! @books_n_betches @ez_bakezz @adventuresofkristin @literaryloser_

Imperfect Paradise is LAist's weekly on-demand news magazine show that pulls back the curtain and dives deeper into the biggest and most consequential SoCal stories of the week from our newsroom. New episodes drop every Friday.

Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live.

Virginia Tapscott is on a quest to uncover her family’s darkest truth - and shine a light on the secrets in all our families. This gripping new investigative podcast is created by Tapscott and journalist Steve Jackson, and brought to you by The Australian. Proudly supported by the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas.

How do you forget your favourite person in the world? Alex remembers everything about the day a speeding police car killed his brother. But his brother, alive? Those memories are lost. And now, 30 years later, Alex wants them back. In this emotional four-part series, Alex unearths his childhood grief — with help from family, friends, and a therapist who witnessed his brother’s death. What happens when trauma and memory collide? Sorry About The Kid is a deeply personal meditation on the losses that define us. Hosted by Alex McKinnon. Produced with Mira Burt-Wintonick (WireTap, Love Me).

To celebrate a hundred years since Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s Ulysses, and to encourage readers to engage (or re-engage) with this spirited, funny, life-changing book, Shakespeare and Company, Paris—in partnership with Penguin Classics and Hay Festival—created an ensemble recording of the unabridged text, released as a free podcast between the centenary of the publication on 2nd February 2022 and Bloomsday on June 16 2022.

Read by more than a hundred writers, artists, comedians and musicians from all over the world— including Sally Rooney, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Fry, Pete Buttigieg, Kae Tempest, Ben Okri, Ali Smith, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley and many, many more... (full cast list below)—Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses is a polyphonic and diverse celebration of this Modernist masterwork.

Also featuring Bloomcast. A deep-dive into the text with Adam Biles, Alice McCrum and Lex Paulson, as well as other bonus episodes.

Conceived and produced by Adam Biles, Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris

Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com

Buy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulysses

Find out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/home

Featuring (in order):

Will Self

Jeanette Winterson

Paul Murray

Ishion Hutchinson

Caoilinn Hughes

Eddie Izzard

Lola Peploe

Nathan Englander

Joe Dunthorne

Kate Stables

Jarred McGinnis

Nicholson Baker

Richard Barnett

Amy Sackville

Chigozie Obioma

Erica Wagner

Patrick Marber

Claire-Louise Bennett

Aleksandar Hemon

Ryan Van Winkle

Cressida Brown

Holly Pester

Adam Thirlwell

Catherine Lacey

Ciaran Farrell

Lauren Elkin

Andrew Hankinson

Conor Horgan

Andy Miller

Preti Taneja

Salena Godden

Sinéad Gleeson

Luke Kennard

Sophie Gorman

Nicole Flattery

John Freeman

Aysegul Savas

Daniel Levin Becker

John Butler

John Mitchinson

Sigrid Rausing

Max Porter

Eimear McBride

Keith Ridgway

Philip Hoare

Deborah Landau

Karthika Nair

Cerys Matthews

DBC Pierre

Katharina Volckmer 

Mark O’Connell

Marcel Theroux

Sylvia Whitman & David Delannet

Lenny Kaye

Sarah Churchwell

Olivia Laing

Katie Kitamura

Ali Smith

Keri Walsh

Lesley Blume

Patrick Hastings

Ben Okri

Colm Toibin

Chloe Aridjis

Stephen Fry

Douglas Stuart

Pete Buttigieg

Tara Mulholland

Paul Muldoon

S&Co Table Readers (Anne Bielec, Ben Brown, Amanda Dennis, Linda Fallon, Heather Heartley, Octavia Horgan, Conor Lee Bourke, Lex Paulson, Kate Poston, Francesca Reece)

David Keenan

Tom McCarthy

David Szalay

Jesse Ball

Carter Bays

James Gregor

Will Burns

Declan McCavana

Greg Proops

Jennifer Canada

Sam Jordison

Eloise Millar

Hollie McNish

Michael Pedersen

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sasha Foer

Ethan Hawke

Rob Doyle

Roisin Kiberd

Lucy Sante

Caitlinn O Keefe

Deborah Levy

Meena Kandasamy

Joanna Lumley

Susan Philipz

Sylvia Whitman

Bonnie Greer

Emilie Pine

Margaret Atwood

Kae Tempest

Lou Doillon

Sally Rooney

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Marginalized people live many realities and fight many battles all at the same time. Our unfiltered words are often confined to break room whispers, living room rants, or raw heartfelt talks with members of our community. What if anyone could be a fly on the wall during these conversations? Oftentimes, we are pressured to “Count to ten,” or play it cool despite these realities. On The Count to Ten Podcast we will be amplifying real people, stories, and conversations to break this code of silence.  

Count to Ten is a weekly podcast hosted by Bri Hall who is an artist, motivational speaker, and social media creator who has amassed over 1.1 million followers on all her platforms. With a dedication to philanthropy and activism, The Count To Ten Podcast is another natural extension of her commitment to social justice and mental health.