The novel "Finnegans Wake" by Irish writer James Joyce is known as one of the most difficult to read books ever written. It's so difficult that people have formed clubs all over the world to read it ...

The moment a California book club had been working toward for 28 years arrived on a Zoom call last month. About 20 people who called in from various places across the world took turns reading the ...

Once a month for the past 28 years, filmmaker Gerry Fialka has convened a book group to read James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake,” a book that is famously difficult to understand. This Tuesday, Oct. 3, ...

Bernadette Lowry has produced a fascinating new book on James Joyce’s final novel "Finnegans Wake." Her findings are, quite simply, compelling. Joyce candidly declares in the final lines of "Finnegans ...

A procrastinating book club finally finished reading the group's first tome — after nearly 30 years. The bookworms chose James Joyce’s "Finnegans Wake" as their first selection. The classic is ...

A man who comes to life at his own wake. Finger cymbals and a Star Wars T‑shirt. A suitcase of electronics. Broken accordion straps and fart jokes. All these were part of “Here Comes Everybody,” a ...

LOS ANGELES — The first sign that “Finnegans Wake” may be among the most challenging books you have ever encountered is its opening line, which begins midsentence. The novel by James Joyce ends the ...

They’d worked for 28 years to get to this moment. I didn’t want to screw it up. Earlier this week, I interviewed Gerry Fialka about the Venice-Wake Book Group, which he founded in 1995 and has led for ...

A Los Angeles book club has finally finished James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" 28 years after starting the iconic novel. The Finnegan's Wake reading club, which was founded by Gerry Fialka in 1995, made ...

â Last year, we awarded the Finnegan's Wake Popcorn reading group (which meets each week in the Haight and reads aloud from the Joyce novel) “Best Pretentious Book Club.” The club considered the award ...

A book club that started at a Venice library in the 1990s spent almost three decades reading “Finnegans Wake.” Singer Engelbert Humperdinck’s new documentary premieres tonight in Hollywood, focusing ...

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