James Joyce Reading Group discussion

hey folks,

the national library in dublin has recently released lots of digital copies of drafts of various joycean works to celebrate bloomsday 2012 - i have provided a link below so you can peruse ...

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vt...

lots of neat stuff, including an early draft of SIRENS episode from ulysses and fragment studies of FW, etc.

happy bloomsday (june 16th - tomorrow), everyone!

Thanks Phillip!

cheers

here is a bit more ...

Bloomsday Download: A free & well-read audio version of Joyce’s Ulysses: http://cultr.me/HKHS0u Find free eText here http://cultr.me/6eKemn

http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/ja...

did anyone do anything special for bloomsday? i didn't take part in any organized readings, but i read most of the nausicaa episode sitting on the couch, in the gathering dusk, like bloom, feeling the rising and falling of the nearby sea.

Yes The Santa Cruz Wakers gathered, and had a fabulous potluck, bbqd chicken, Guinness, Gorgonzola (see Ulysses) and Beet Salad, and shortbread biscuits (cookies)--and cheese platter reflected the three cities at the very bottom of the last page of Ulysses (Paris, Trieste, Zurich). We watched a video on Bloomsday around the world.

lovely!

A question came up as to how big the Jewish community in Ireland was in 1904. I did a bit of research and posted it on our blog:
http://finniganswakesantacruz.blogspo...

James Joyce Interviewed
by Djuna Barnes

from Vanity Fair Magazine, 1922

In a 1922 interview conducted at at the famed Paris cafe Deux Magots,
avant-garde writer, illustrator and playwright Djuna Barnes (1892 -
1982) gave her all in an attempt to understand the man who was James
Joyce (1882 - 1941).

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Ja...