Happy 120th birthday to Samuel Beckett!
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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!
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-...
If only he’d made a Hamlet/omelette pun as well…😉
Congrong Dai’s three volume translation of Finnegans Wake
Just landed: Congrong Dai’s complete translation of Finnegans Wake
"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
Received mine from Deep Vellum. Hope to get to it this month.
Attempted 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.
We 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!
As an amusement park food service employee, I rolled the silverware for the band Survivor.
No, 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! 😉
Joseph 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, we’re told the Bloom of the dental office in W Rocks isn’t Leopold, and now this?!
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?).
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
Just subscribed!
I finished this book early this week. Really enjoyable and informative.
The door of the famous No. 7 Eccles Street from Ulysses at the James Joyce Centre.
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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.
I ordered mine. Can’t wait for another reading, this time with these editions!