Happy Bloomsday!
It’s Bloomsday, the annual celebration of the life and works of James Joyce. This is the date of Leopold Bloom’s journey around Dublin in Joyce’s Ulysses.
Oprah’s Book Club Is Back!
Oprah’s Book Club Selects ‘Wild’ Officially kicking off “Oprah Book Club 2.0” on June 4, Oprah Winfrey has selected Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (Random House) as her first pick. The book, a memoir about a 1,100 mile solo hike that Strayed took after personal tragedy, has
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Monday Miscellany
Here’s what caught my eye over the past week: ‘I Am The Cheese’: A Nightmarish Nail-Biter: The most chilling book I’ve ever read is Robert Cormier’s I Am the Cheese. In this piece, which is almost as compelling as the novel itself, author Ben Marcus remembers how reading the book affected him as a 12-year-old
2012 Orange Prize Goes to ‘The Song of Achilles’
2012 Orange Prize Goes to ‘The Song of Achilles’ Madeline Miller, the 8-1 outsider last night won the 2012 – and last – Orange Prize for Fiction with her debut novel The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury), becoming the fourth American in a row to take home the £30,000 cheque and the bronze “Bessie” figurine, both
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JoyceWays: Ulysses iPod App | A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism
JoyceWays: Ulysses iPod App | A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism A James Joyce iPod app is scheduled for introduction at Dublin’s James Joyce Center on June 14, two days before Bloomsday: It’s six chapters from Ulysses; it’s twenty locations from Dubliners; it’s fifteen of Joycean hostelries. It’s got over 100 spots from Ulysses.
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55 years later, Kerouac novel finally is a movie
55 years later, Kerouac novel finally is a movie | The Columbia Daily Tribune – Columbia, Missouri Fifty-five years after its publication, Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” finally is burning on the big screen. Marlon Brando, Jean-Luc Godard and Brad Pitt have all circled the classic 1957 novel over the past six decades, but Walter
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Monday Miscellany
This week’s link round-up: The 42 Best Lines from Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series: I’m sorry that I missed Towel Day on May 25, the annual celebration of the life and work of Douglas Adams, but I’ve put it on the literary calendar so I won’t forget next year. In honor
Photo: Do You Know How Long to Wash Your Hands?
I did not know this bit of useful information. Thanks to Bob Evans.
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Kurt Vonnegut on How to Write a Good Story
Kurt Vonnegut narrates his eight tips on how to write a good story: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if
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