On the Grapevine Sessions, hosts Harry and Nicholas discuss books and ideas, sparked by 'grapes' – passages from the world's books, chosen from Grapevine (atgrapevine.com).

Grapes this week:

+ James Joyce on a day in Dublin (Ulysses) + George Orwell on reading Ulysses (Inside the Whale)+ George Bernard Shaw on the truth of Ulysses (in Shakespeare and Company)+ John Carey on the intimacy - and alienation - of Ulysses (The Intellectuals and the Masses)+ Nicole Krauss on the frustrations of Kakfa (Forest Dark)+ John Keats on an ode to a nightingale (Ode to a Nightingale)

+ Sara Baum on the death of a swan (Spill Simmer Falter Wither)+ James Baldwin on life and death (The Fire Next Time)+ Mike McCormack on a man experiencing his death (Solar Bones)+ Chinua Achebe on the mind of a colonial (Things Fall Apart)