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The celebration of holidays like St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo has become downright awful in America, thanks mostly to their embrace by drunken masses that have little to no cultural affiliation with the countries where the holidays originated. Bloomsday, which honors James Joyce’s Ulysses, is something of the literary version of those days, but with fewer frat boys throwing up in the streets. It is a fun day on the calendar for Joyce lovers, and even those who couldn’t finish or didn’t understand Ulysses, to celebrate — and it’s just about as official as literary holidays get. … Read More
Happy Bloomsday! You Must Listen to Frank Delaney’s ‘Re: Joyce’ Podcast on ‘Ulysses’
One of the pleasures of my time spent living upstate was the occasional run-in with Frank Delaney, a man… Read More
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