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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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Who Will Remember Bloomsday?

According to Richard Ellmann: “On June 16 the gloom of the clinic was alleviated by the arrival of a bouquet of hydrangeas, white and dyed blue, which some friends sent him in honor of ‘Bloomsday,’ as the day of Ulysses was already called. In his notebook Joyce scrawled, ‘Today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody remember this date?’”






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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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Who Will Remember Bloomsday?

James Joyce wrote with excruciating effort as he recovered from one of many eye operations in June 1924. He’d had an iridectomy on his left eye in hopes of preventing another attack of glaucoma. According to Richard Ellmann’s biography, the … Continue reading






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Who Will Remember Bloomsday?

James Joyce wrote with excruciating effort as he recovered from one of many eye operations in June 1924. He’d had an iridectomy on his left eye in hopes of preventing another attack of glaucoma. According to Richard Ellmann’s biography, the … Continue reading






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