James Joyce

  • James Joyce at the Library!

    ~posted by David W. There are some books that should be heard and not seen. Well, perhaps that’s a little extreme. Let me say instead that there are authors whom you haven’t really experienced until you have read them aloud, or had them read to you. Most poets fit that category, and certainly Shakespeare. And for both myself… Continue reading

  • Riffs on the classics: The Odyssey (Part 2)

    Last time, I looked at the Odyssey and some close-hewn translations and versions of the original epic poem.  Come along as we continue our wanderings through the text and beyond to see where it will take us. From these rather straightforward threads of the original, things get a little weird, as the stories become more… Continue reading