A moral umbrella
From James Joyce’s Dubliners.
A husband
From James Joyce’s Dubliners.
Barometers
A sentence from James Joyce’s “Counterparts” begins Charles Jackson’s novel The Lost Weekend.
Love and grammar
From James Joyce’s “The Boarding House.”
Bloomsday 2021
A 1904 recording of “Love’s Old Sweet Song.”
Humanity in a president-elect
Joe Biden, James Joyce, and Delaware.
Bloomsday 2020
Leopold Bloom, eleven-year-old poet. From “Ithaca,” my favorite episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922).
Stephen Joyce (1932–2020)
Not a good guy.
Joyce in LA
In Los Angeles, Charlene Matthews, bookbinder, has written out the text of James Joyce’s Ulysses on thirty-eight ship dowels.
Bloomsday 2019
From “Ithaca,” my favorite episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922).
Maeve Brennan again
Channeling James Joyce’s “Eveline.”
“I mean the opposite of hatred”
From Ulysses.
Politicians and Joyce
At The New Yorker, Kevin Dettmar, Joyce scholar, writes about “the politicians who love Ulysses”: Buden, Buttigieg, O’Rourke.
A text for the day
It’s fitting that ad canvasser Leopold Bloom, who goes to sleep thinking of “one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder,” should see Saint Patrick as an ad man who came up with a smart way to capture the public’s attention.
Bloomsday 2018
What Leopold Bloom thinks about when he goes to sleep.
Whatever became of John Kidd?
In The New York Times, Jack Hiatt recounts his search for the James Joyce scholar John Kidd.
Lost Ulysses
Benjamin Linus reads Ulysses.
Bloomsday 2017
A passage from “Ithaca.”
A text for the day
From Finnegans Wake.
“Layers and layers of shelter”
From Willa Cather’s Shadows on the Rock.
Bloomsday 2016
“I dont like books with a Molly in them.”
A text for the day
From Finnegans Wake.
Bloomsday 2015
It is getting late, and Stephen Dedalus and company are very drunk:
A portrait of the artist as a young dog
Mutts and Stephen Dedalus.
Word of the day: palaver
“When I see that word, I think of James Joyce’s story ‘The Dead,’ in which it’s spoken by Lily, the caretaker’s daughter.”
Bloomsday 2014
“What relation existed between their ages?”
A text for the day
From Finnegans Wake.
Bloomsday 2012
What is home without Plumtree’s Potted Meat? Incomplete.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
From Finnegans Wake.
“[T]he creature cocoa”
A passage from Ulysses