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"Finnegans Wake," James Joyce's phantasmagorical 1939 novel, is considered the hardest book to read in Western canon. Joyce uses made-up languages, and words with more than 100 letters. Joyce said he ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In October, after 28 years, a book club finally finished one of the most famously-difficult-to-read books in literature, Finnegans Wake by James... This book club finally finished 'Finnegans Wake.' It ...