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Apple Relents on Censoring ‘Ulysses Unseen’

How did Apple celebrate Bloomsday? It relented on censoring an iPad app for a comic book adaptation of Ulysses. Judge Woolsey would shake his head. Welcome back to the 20th century! Continue reading






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Transplanting Molly’s “Flower of the Mountain” To Lake Woebegone

“On this day in 1932 James Joyce wrote to Random House’s Bennett Cerf a famous letter detailing the tribulations of getting his novel Ulysses published,” according to Writer’s Almanac. To mark the occasion Garrison K recited the “Yes” soliloquy. It’s a warm, sunny day but it seems a long way from Bloomsday. Molly’s “Flower of the Mountain” doesn’t quite transplant to Lake Woebegone. And Garrison Keillor is no Coleen Dewhurst.






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Iran Blocks Travel By Poet Simin Behbahani

The repressive regime in Tehran has seized the passport of poet Simin Behbahani, according to NPR, blocking her travel to Paris to give a poetry reading. Known as the “lioness of Iran,” Simin Behbahani has been writing fierce poetry for decades, during the reign of Iran’s Shah, during the Islamic Revolution, during the reign of the ayatollahs, and over the past year’s political turmoil.






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A Word is the Search for It, part 3: Subtext and Secret Writing

As Vygotsky probed deeper into the inner processes of thought and language, he reached motive. “Thought is not begotten by thought,” he wrote. “It is engendered by motivation, … by our desires and needs, our interests and emotions. Behind every … Continue reading






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