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Volunteer For The Bloomsday Experiment 2011: "Ulysses" Meets Twitter

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First Posted: 05/26/11 12:59 PM ET Updated: 07/26/11 06:12 AM ET

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Every year on 16 June lovers of the richest novel of all time -- James Joyce's Ulysses -- celebrate this literary revelation with Bloomsday. Live readings of the novel pop up all over the world. But what would happen if that experience of hearing this great novel read live was, instead, shoehorned into the fractured new media that is Twitter, all within the 24-hour span of the novel? That is what this experiment is designed to find out.

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Every year on 16 June lovers of the richest novel of all time -- James Joyce's Ulysses -- celebrate this literary revelation with Bloomsday. Live readings of the novel pop up all over the world. But w...
Every year on 16 June lovers of the richest novel of all time -- James Joyce's Ulysses -- celebrate this literary revelation with Bloomsday. Live readings of the novel pop up all over the world. But w...
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09:49 AM on 06/04/2011
Staten Island OutLOUD has hosted an annual Bloomsday celebration for nearly ten years. Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 7:30pm. We’ll gather at ETG Book Cafe, 208 Bay Street, Staten Island NY 10301 (just 3 blocks from the Ferry).

Free and open to the public.
We offer Joycean hospitality, Ulysses, music, burgundy and gorgonzola.

Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StatenIslandOutLOUD
Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SIOutLOUD
Visit our website: http://www.statenislandoutloud.org
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