James Joyce

The Art of Passionately Hating at Least One Classic Author

Nick Kolakowski | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Literature, James Joyce, Ken Kesey, Intellectualism, John Milton, Comedy, How-to-Become-an-Intellectual, Comedy News
Nick Kolakowski

Not that you need to unleash your inner Conan the Barbarian to make a point about literature. But given how intellectuals inevitably harbor well-tended lists of likes and dislikes, not confessing a deep hatred of, say, John Milton's poetry will compel other learned types to view you with suspicion.

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Riverrun to a Monitor Near You: Joyce's Manuscripts Now Online

David Kudler | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Book News, James Joyce Finnegans Wake, Irish National Library, James Joyce, James Joyce Ulysses, Books News
David Kudler

The Irish National Library has very quietly taken advantage of the entry this year into the public domain of the works of Irish novelist James Joyce by posting its horde of rare Joyce manuscripts on its online archive.

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Evocative Portraits Of Authors

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Anais Nin, James Joyce, Video, Author Portrait, Carl Kohler, Charles Bukowski, Franz Kafka, Henry Kohler, Portrait Author, Simone De Beauvoir, Dostoevsky, Slidepollajax, Artaud, Arts News

Many artists allude to their inspirations in their works, and it is no different for artist Carl Kohler, who dedicated his life's work to paying respe...

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Owner Of Famous Paris Bookstore Dies

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Shakespeare and Company, George Whitman, Sylvia Beach, Don Quixote of the Latin Quarter, Paris Bookstore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

PARIS — George Whitman's life was packed with the type of adventures that filled every nook and cranny of his bookshop, Paris' iconic English-la...

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Your Grammar Is Not Married to Your Gramper

Ellen Siminoff | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: James Joyce, Grammar, Mark Twain, Huck Finn, Anthony Burgess, Education News
Ellen Siminoff

Poor grammar is ugly. To any lover of the English language who values a correctly constructed sentence, it can signify a lack of intelligence or effort. Are many of us limiting ourselves in terms of potential success by u'sing apo'strophes every time we see an 's?

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GADLING: 10 Landmarks For Lovers Of Western Literature

www.gadling.com | Jessica Festa | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Literature, International Destinations, Destinations, James Joyce, US Destinations, Travel News

Are you an enthusiast of everything Voltaire? Can you not get enough of Shakespeare and James Joyce? If you are a lover of Western literature, add the...

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7 'Overrated' Things

Mark Juddery | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Overrated, Overrated Things, Titanic, Google, James Joyce, Ulysses, Books News
Mark Juddery

It's been over a year since "Overrated: The 50 Most Overhyped Things in History" was published by Perigee in New York, and even longer since the Australian edition.

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Bronte, William Thackeray, Classic Novels, Emily Bronte, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Theodore Dreiser, Herman Melville, Honore De Balzac, Charlotte Bronte, Five Year Plan, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Great Authors, Alexandre Dumas, Willa Cather, Thornton Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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Making Your Novel Picks

Warren Adler | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Novels, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Book Publishing, Finding Authors, New Authors, Best Selling Authors, Finding New Authors, Books News
Warren Adler

Would we have discovered the works of authors like Hemingway, Faulkner, Joyce, Maugham, O'Hara, Fitzgerald, Roth and many other modern masters if we had to come across them through the fragmentation and puzzling pathways of cyberspace?

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Which Sexy Book Character Do You Want To Sleep With?

Zoe Triska | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Virginia Woolf, Franny and Zooey, Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings, Literary Characters to Sleep With, Gone With the Wind, Pride and Prejudice, True Blood, Sexy Literary Characters, J.D. Salinger, James Joyce, Sexy Book Characters, Video, Sleep With Book Characters, Love & Sex, Charlaine Harris, Ulysses, Slidepollajax, Books News

It's a very personal question to ask but we didn't let that stop us, and readers really seemed to want to let us know which book characters they'd mo...

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Leopold Bloom Resigns After Erotic Letters Leak

Jonah Green | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Leopold Bloom, Bloomsday 2011, Ulysses, Anthony Weiner, Leopold Bloom Resigns, Anthony Weiner Resigns, James Joyce, Bloomsday, Books News
Jonah Green

Weeks after it was revealed that Leopold Bloom had carried on erotic penpal exchanges with a woman named Martha Clifford, Mr. Bloom has decided to step down from his post at his advertising firm.

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PHOTOS Bloomsday 2011: What Will People Be Doing This Year To Celebrate?

Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: The Odyssey, James Joyce, Joyce, Bloomsday 2011, Ulysses, James Joyce Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus, Modern Novels, Bloomsday, Leopold Bloom, Books News

Every year on June 16th, James Joyce lovers celebrate Bloomsday to commemorate his modernist masterpiece "Ulysses." "Ulysses" chronicles a day, June 1...

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What Would Joyce Do? Ulysses Revisited -- In Comic Form

Joan K. Smith | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: iPad Apps, James Joyce, Comics, Ulysses, James Joyce Ulysses, Ipad, Graphic Novel, Ulysses Graphic Novel, Ulysses Seen, Robert Berry, Arts News
Joan K. Smith

Ulysses Seen, a serialized electronic comic book adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, is a perfect example of a truly crazy idea turning out to be utterly brilliant.

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How To Properly Celebrate Bloomsday This Year

The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: What to Do on Bloomsday, James Joyce, NY Events, Bloomsday 2011, Ulysses, NY Around Town, Bloomsday New York, Bloomsday Nyc, Bloomsday, Bloomsday 2011 Nyc, New York News

Bloomsday, the annual holiday commemorating the events of James Joyce's Ulysses (which takes place on June 16, 1904) is this Thursday. And New York is...

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10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Short Stories, J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories, Best Short Stories, The Dead, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Carver, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Books News

As a fitting finale to National Short Story Month, we asked the talented crew over at One Story to name their ten favorite epigrammatic tales. Tanya R...

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Love "Ulysses?" Volunteer For The Bloomsday Experiment 2011

11ysses.wordpress.com | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: James Joyce, June 16, Twitter, Bloomsday, Bloomsday Experiment, Ulysses, Bloomsday 2011 Experiment, Books News

Every year on 16 June lovers of the richest novel of all time -- James Joyce's Ulysses -- celebrate this literary revelation with Bloomsday. Live read...

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A Literary Sin: On Giving Away Books

Maegan Carberry | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Right of Passage, Book Drives, James Joyce, Dr. Phil, Second-Hand Book Shop, Charity, Blackwater, Donating to Charity, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Second Hand Books, Reading List, Gone With the Wind, Jay Z, Imagination, Classic Books, Books News
Maegan Carberry

I am having a hard time coming to grips with whether I will ever read The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In some respects, I believe a good book finds you at the exact moment in your life when you need to read it.

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With Release of Atlas Shrugged Movie, a Rise in Rand Rants on Reason

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Ayn Rand Politics, James Joyce, Ayn Rand, William F. Buckley, Atlas Shrugged Movie, Ayn Rand Objectivism, Ayn Rand Government, Paul Krugman, United States, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand Philosophy, Objectivism, Books News
John Wellington Ennis

The idea that sides must be chosen in advance of the release of the film Atlas Shrugged feels a little frivolous. With the look of a TV movie, I doubt that the "leftists" will be out in force telling Rand fans how bad this movie it is.

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Kate Bush Finally Given Permission To Use 'Ulysses' Text In Song

Telegraph | 3:27PM BST 04 Apr 2011 | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Molly Bloom, Kate Bush Song, Kate Bush, James Joyce, Flower of the Mountain, Ulysses, The Sensual World, Kate Bush Ulysses Song, Books News

Reclusive singer Kate Bush has been given the go-ahead to use the text of James Joyce's Ulysses for a song, more than 20 years after asking....

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Books You Should Have Read By Now: Readers Admit What Made Their Lists (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: James Joyce, Emma, Twitter, Lady Chatterly's Lover, #Abouttimeiread, Ulysses, Slidepollajax, Penguin Books, Pride and Prejudice, Books News

Penguin Books (@penguinbooks) recently tweeted, "So who is up for admitting what books they should have read by now? #abouttimeiread" We've all go...

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Literature Leaps into the 22nd Century, Lands Awkwardly

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dna, Elizabeth Alexander, Literature Twitter, Literature, Robert Pinsky, Claudia Rankine, Twitter Literature, Twitter, Genome, Craig Venter, Genetics, James Joyce, Richard Frynman, Human Genome, Tattoos, Healthy Living News
John Lundberg

As scientists improve their ability to manipulate the genome, will a market might emerge for people who want to imprint quotes into their own DNA, or even their children's, as a sort of genetic tattoo?

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The Problem With Gender-Neutral Book Revisions (PHOTOS)

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Book Revisions, Robert Penn Warren, Herman Melville, Bible Gender Neutral, D.H. Lawrence, Gender Neutral Book Revisions, Books News

It just so happens that a little birdie (the Internet) told us that the 2011 International Translation of the Bible is now gender-neutral! According t...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day: HuffPost Readers Pick Their Favorite Irish Books (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bram Stoker, St. Patricks Day, James Joyce, Twitter, St. Patrick's Day, Angela's Ashes, Samuel Beckett, Irish Literature, Dubliners, Dracula, Facebook, Frank Mccourt, Slidepollajax, Wb Yeats, #Irishlit, Books News

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2011, and in honor of the day of shamrocks, parades and green beer, we asked you to tell us your favorite books by Irish autho...

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Top 10 Slang Narratives: From Pigeon English To "Milk-Plus"

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Huckleberry Finn, As I Lay Dying, James Joyce, Slang Books, Wuthering Heights, William Faulkner, Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, Slidepollajax, Finnegan's Wake, Books News

From Flavorwire: By Kathleen Massara Dialect can be used as a class marker, or as something that identifies your hometown, your race, or your pr...

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Getting Slizzard: HuffPost Readers Pick Best Drinking Scenes In Literature (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beowulf, Great Gatsby, Nine Stories, Cathedral, Ulysses, Slidepollajax, Shakespeare, Raymond Carver, James Joyce, Books News

In "Macbeth," Macduff famously asks, "What three things does drink especially provoke?" To which the porter replies, "Marry, sir, nose-painting, slee...

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