It’s Bloomsday, the day in June on which James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is set. Here are a few items about the day:
- Happy Bloomsday! [Reprise] by Kathleen Dixon Donnelly on the Such Friends blog
- Happy Bloomsday! The World Celebrates James Joyce, New York Times
- Radio Bloomsday June 16, 2011
- With Expiration of ‘Ulysses’ Copyright, Bloomsday Celebrations – PBS
- Bloomsday Online: James Joyce, Ulysses and Dublin
- In honor of Bloomsday, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. has acquired a world class Joyce collection that documents Joyce’s life and work. Material is for sale individually and on view by appointment in its Manhattan offices and East Hampton gallery throughout the summer. The collection, of more than 100 books, letters, photographs and manuscripts by and about Joyce, was built over the course of 30 years by writer and editor Alexander Neubauer, according to Horowitz.
[…] that day in June on which Mrs. Dalloway takes place, the Woolf counterpart to Joyce’s Bloomsday on June 16. I’m not going to recap the evidence, but rather I’ll do what I usually do, […]
Kathleen, you make me want to listen to Ulysses! The program sounds terrific.
Thanks for the link! The @BBCRadio4 all day celebrations of Bloomsday were fabulous. If you were ever afraid to read it [or finish reading it], Ulysses makes a lot more sense when you hear it. And arts commentator Mark Lawson filled in background with interviews all around Dublin. I’m hoping to access the last two parts I missed on the BBC play it again feature. Yes! Yes! I said Yes!