Bloomsday
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Hallelujah, Bloomsday!
Happy Bloomsday, one and all. Well, probably not all–but many of the literary weirdos who might find their way onto this site this morning or mid evening or with their faces mashed oh so narcoleptically atop their keyboards. What was I talking about? I am fickle about holidays. My four foot pink Xmas trees gets Continue reading
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Episode 320: Bloomsday 2018!
Episode 320 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s program, The Drunken Odyssey enjoys perhaps its final Bloomsday live show, and its perhaps final visit to The Gallery at Avalon Island. Episode 320 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast Continue reading
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Episode 104: Bloomsday 2014!
Episode 104 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this bonus episode, I guide listeners through a lovely tour of Ulysses on today, which is Bloomsday. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Black 47’s music here, or wherever you buy music. “I Got Laid Continue reading
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Episode 54: Bloomsday in Orlando!
Episode 54 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I share the live Bloomsday event! NOTES See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Continue reading
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Episode 50: David Sedaris
Episode 50 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the memoir writer David Sedaris, plus Pamela Skjolsvik discusses David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Adriana Lecuona writes about Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Those Who Leave Omelas.” Texts Continue reading
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How to Read Ulysses for the First Time
First, get quite soddenly drunk. Second, sit yourself outside, in a comfy place, like a hammock, rocking chair, settee, or else a blanket spread on a tufty patch of lawn, and remember of course to bring more drink with you. Third, and this stage pertains only to the more radical readers, read the book. This Continue reading
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Getting in the Mood for Bloomsday
Episode 2 of The Drunken Odyssey will be a live recording of our upcoming Bloomsday celebration at Urban ReThink in downtown Orlando, with Irish fare by The Spork Café (place your orders now). If you can, join us as we frolic with James Joyce’s Ulysses. Here are some items to whet your anticipatory impulses. ******** The great Stephen Fry opines deliciously about the book. Continue reading
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A tour-de-force of Ithican Proportions: Christopher Booth and Chris Nattrass on Bloomsday 2010
The two Chrisses managed to make Ithaca marvelous to hear, despite the sleepy monotonous of the form. Bully for them for leaning into the weirdness. http://youtu.be/tC_-TqSMJGg Continue reading
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Bloomsday in Orlando/Bloomsday in NYC
On June 16th, this podcast (which is I, actually) will host a Bloomsday event from 6 to 9 p.m. at Urban ReThink in downtown Orlando. This event is inspired, in large part, by the Bloomsdays I attended in New York when I lived there. Here is a journalist droplet I wrote about my last one. Continue reading
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