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Love Loves to Love Love: Bloomsday Roundup
update -> Mental Multivitamin has some Bloomsday notes.
Tonight I’ll be at Bloomsday on Broadway. You can listen to Isaiah Sheffer, the artistic director of Symphony Space, joined by Malachy McCourt and Marian Seldes for a preview of the 25th anniversary of Bloomsday on Broadway on the Leanard Lopate Show (mp3). This year’s festivities begin at noon, but if you had to pick a later entry point, there will be some Beckett reading around 5:30.
A couple of years ago I listed some suggested reading to approach Ulysses. Dusted off, here’s the post.
I guess I can get sued for that Ulysses quote in the title: D. T. Max in the New Yorker on whether or not Joyce’s Grandson is suppressing scholarship. (via Grumpy Old Bookman, who also has some good commentary)
“Before any guidebook, then, rough or smooth, the essential volume the first-time visitor must pack, whether in a Louis Vuitton valise or one of Mr. Kipling’s exceedingly fine knapsacks, is James Joyce’s Dubliners…”
- John Banville in Salon (via Prufrock’s Page)
Ulysses for Dummies: Get all of Ulysses in a few short cartoons – oddly funnier if you’ve read the book (via Reading Matters)
Bloomsday canceled in Dublin: former PM Charles Haughey has died so they’re having a funeral instead. (via Prufrock’s Page)
A nice ode to Joyce’s talent by Peter Craven in The Australian (via TEV)
WikiPedia’s James Joyce entry and on Bloomsday. (via Rarely Likable)
One reason people may hate Joyce’s works:
“In this class we read a piece by Joyce. I don’t even remember what it was. All I remember is there was a silver bracelet. I remember the silver bracelet because the professor spent quite a bit of time berating us for not figuring out what the bracelet meant.”
- Stefanie at So Many Books
On the year 1922:
“The year of Ulysses, The Waste Land, Rilke’s Dueno Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus(written in three days). Of Brecht’s first play, Baal, Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod. Virginia Wolfe’s Jacob’s Room, Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah, Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christy, Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt, Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga, Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter.”
- John Baker
Surely there’s more: Google News on Bloomsday and James Joyce.
comments
I’m learning to like Joyce. It feels good to begin to slough off the bad teaching that made me afraid of reading him.
– stefanie (06/21 at 08:47 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: June 16, 2006
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Wise Men Fish Here: Literature
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