It has been almost five years since the last North Carolina Bookwatch program was produced and aired by PBS-NC.  Some people still ask me what programs PBS NC Bookwatch would be airing if the program ...

The day is named after Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce’s 1922 novel ‘Ulysses’, the events of which take place on ...

Ireland is preparing to mark 100 years since Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set - 16 June 1904. But why is Joyce - and Ulysses in particular - continually held up as such a ...

Two Dubliners, professor Sam Slote and engineer John O'Connell, bond over Joyce's Ulysses, celebrating Bloomsday and sharing ...

Richard Ellmann’s “James Joyce” is a classic of literary biography. In “Ellmann’s Joyce,” Zachary Leader delves into the ...

[Anything longer than two sentences.] I have so thoroughly mastered the art of dropping off and picking up my child at day ...

Writer Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin: ‘A ­Finnegans Wake book club ended up being one of the great reading experiences of my life’ Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin. Photo: Julie Broadfoot ...

Finnegan described how professors like Norman O. Brown, Harry Berger, and Tom Vogler gave him their time and serious attention. “I had no business taking up their time, but they gave me so much,” he ...

Writer Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin: ‘A ­Finnegans Wake book club ended up being one of the great reading experiences of my life’ My Life in Books ...

But “Finnegans Wake,” though it would like to appear cosmically objective, is really a personal book, drawing from no tradition; the word experiments of Rabelais, Shakespeare, and the French ...

Having done the longest day in literature with Ulysses (1922), Joyce set himself an even greater challenge for his next book – the night. “A nocturnal state… That is what I want to convey: what goes ...

The book follows a Dublin bricklayer named Finnegan, who dies in an accident and is brought home for a traditional Irish wake. As mourners gather, someone splashes whiskey on the wall beside his body.