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James Joyce, James Brown, Writing a Novel
We shared this on Instagram yesterday, but if On the Calculation of Volume teaches us anything, it's that every day is November 18th.
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The Great Finnegans Wake Annotator!
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A James Joyce exhibition begins next week at @themerl.bsky.social in Reading. Runs till 9 Feb. More info here: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/james-...
30.09.2025 08:57 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0If only he’d made a Hamlet/omelette pun as well…😉
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Congrong Dai’s three volume translation of Finnegans Wake
Just landed: Congrong Dai’s complete translation of Finnegans Wake
17.09.2025 11:10 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0"In spite of ourselves
We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow
Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize"
John Prine's good for what ails you. So are bookstores. John Prine playing in a bookstore? Couldn't be better.
An Instagram Profile of the Artist as a Young Man
09.09.2025 18:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Received mine from Deep Vellum. Hope to get to it this month.
05.09.2025 19:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Attempted cancellation of philospher Maarten Boudry at Ghent University for his "Zionist-tinged opinions."
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I’ve read two of his others and liked but not loved them. I do hear good things about this.
18.06.2025 00:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are celebrating the opening of Joyce’s personal archive next year, and displaying items which reveal more about the author behind the puzzles of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The exhibition is in the Museum of English Rural life staircase hall from 7 Oct 2025 - 9 Feb 2026. More details to follow!
16.06.2025 09:10 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1As an amusement park food service employee, I rolled the silverware for the band Survivor.
13.06.2025 23:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No, I haven’t. And I’ll be otherwise occupied with yet another reread of Ulysses beginning next week. I’ll be guiding a few newbies. Kinda like what you do! 😉
13.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Joseph Luzzi makes a compelling case that a great work of art can lead a life every bit as dramatic, chequered and instructive as the artist who made it
@markscarbrough.bsky.social
First, we’re told the Bloom of the dental office in W Rocks isn’t Leopold, and now this?!
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Two translations of Dante’s Paradiso are set to come out in the year of our Lord 2025. Come July we’ll get Mary Jo Bang’s "irreverent” conclusion, published by Graywolf Press, and in August NYRB will give us D. M. Black’s second installment (anyone knows if he plans on translating Inferno?).
31.05.2025 22:20 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
This week’s TLS, featuring Joyce and his biographer; Prigozhin’s mutiny; class solidarity vs identity politics; Indian and German thought; Kafka and the American state – and much more
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Just subscribed!
06.05.2025 21:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I finished this book early this week. Really enjoyable and informative.
30.04.2025 19:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The door of the famous No. 7 Eccles Street from Ulysses at the James Joyce Centre.
#jamesjoyce
Here is Dr. Josh Newman speaking to students at the James Joyce Centre this week.
This is an original copy of Ulysses written by James Joyce, published in Paris in 1922. #jamesjoyce
I have a similar path. Read the trilogy about age 25, then 15 years later and two years ago. Looking forward to these editions.
13.04.2025 18:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I ordered mine. Can’t wait for another reading, this time with these editions!
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We’re rocking and rolling on Mount Purgatory as we tiptoe through the greedy. Drop in here or check out the most insanely obsessive podcast about Dante’s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.
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Rene Descartes portrait
Guess who's finally coming to the podcast on Sunday?
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