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James Joyce, James Brown, Writing a Novel
The Great Finnegans Wake Annotator!
10.10.2025 11:54 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0A 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 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0If only heβd made a Hamlet/omelette pun as wellβ¦π
23.09.2025 13:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congrong Daiβs three volume translation of Finnegans Wake
Just landed: Congrong Daiβs complete translation of Finnegans Wake
17.09.2025 11:10 β π 10 π 3 π¬ 1 π 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 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Received mine from Deep Vellum. Hope to get to it this month.
05.09.2025 19:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Attempted cancellation of philospher Maarten Boudry at Ghent University for his "Zionist-tinged opinions."
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Iβve read two of his others and liked but not loved them. I do hear good things about this.
18.06.2025 00:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are celebrating the opening of Joyceβs 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 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1As an amusement park food service employee, I rolled the silverware for the band Survivor.
13.06.2025 23:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0No, I havenβt. And Iβll be otherwise occupied with yet another reread of Ulysses beginning next week. Iβll be guiding a few newbies. Kinda like what you do! π
13.06.2025 14:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 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
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First, weβre told the Bloom of the dental office in W Rocks isnβt Leopold, and now this?!
12.06.2025 16:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Two translations of Danteβs Paradiso are set to come out in the year of our Lord 2025. Come July weβll get Mary Jo Bangβs "irreverentβ conclusion, published by Graywolf Press, and in August NYRB will give us D. M. Blackβs second installment (anyone knows if he plans on translating Inferno?).
31.05.2025 22:20 β π 17 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0This weekβs TLS, featuring Joyce and his biographer; Prigozhinβs mutiny; class solidarity vs identity politics; Indian and German thought; Kafka and the American state β and much more
22.05.2025 16:19 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 2Just subscribed!
06.05.2025 21:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I finished this book early this week. Really enjoyable and informative.
30.04.2025 19:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 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 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I ordered mine. Canβt wait for another reading, this time with these editions!
13.04.2025 18:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Weβre rocking and rolling on Mount Purgatory as we tiptoe through the greedy. Drop in here or check out the most insanely obsessive podcast about Danteβs 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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