Word: bloomsday
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...rest of us, perhaps it's enough to drop the odd smart reference to June 16, 1904 (that's Bloomsday for Joyce fans, or, dear nonreaders, the day Ulysses takes place), the evocative aroma of madeleines (nostalgia muffins to novelist Marcel Proust), or George Eliot (remember, she was a woman). Bayard argues that the real secret to knowledge, cultivation and passionate reading lies in avoiding the traditional, linear approach to books. "Books aren't so much made to be read, as they are to be lived with," he says. Hey, doesn't that remind you of something Franz Kafka once...
...Wright wants to take her writing back to its roots. "I thought it could be a grand idea," she says, "if one day Carpentaria could be read in one sitting in the Gulf, or in the schools, just like James Joyce's Ulysses is read aloud every year on Bloomsday." Australia, get ready for Desperance...
...Happy Bloomsday! Stanford University professor Carol Shloss marked the 102nd anniversary last week of the epic trek through Dublin by Stephen Bloom, hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, by filing a lawsuit. She accuses Joyce's estate and its agent, his grandson Stephen Joyce, of intimidating her and unfairly preventing her from quoting Joyce's writings and family records for her 2003 book about Joyce's daughter Lucia...
...played Sanders Theater, this year he visited the Berklee Performance Center. Thanksgiving is, of course, Guthrie's holiday, for it's the day upon which the events of Alice's Restaurant take place. While Christmas reaps the benefit of It's A Wonderful Life, and everybody reads Ulysses on Bloomsday, Thanksgiving is a holiday in need of some tradition that the culture industry can market. Why not Arlo Guthrie? The war in Vietnam may well be long past, but we're all getting older. With the same wit he used so well in civic protest, Guthrie demonstrates how to fade...
...fact that he set Bloomsday, the day on which the action of Ulysses takes place, on June 16, 1904, speaks volumes of his need for her. That was the day he first fell in love with her. But while Joyce and his art was changed dramatically by her, she still remained the same humble person she had always been...