Random House Publisher Profile Aug 1, 2009
Random House is home to world famous, contemporary authors such as John Grisham, Danielle Steel, Michael Crichton, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz and Dr. Seuss and literary legends like James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner and Sinclair Lewis. About Random House. (Suite101.com)
NCSU band bound for Ireland again Aug 1, 2009
Pack the trombones and start reading your James Joyce, N.C. State band members. The Ireland trip is back on. (News & Observer)
Storyteller's gift Jul 26, 2009
McCourt would redden with embarrassment at any comparisons to James Joyce, but for this one great book, they would not be out of line. KEVIN CUNEO can be reached at 870-1701. (Erie Times-News, PA)
The storyteller Jul 23, 2009
"I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book," James Joyce remarked of "Ulysses.". Another intimate portrait of another Irish city is just as clear, although it's doubtful anyone would want to reconstruct the stinking slums of Limerick that shaped young Frank McCourt. (NJ.com -- Times)
Writing Effective Dialogue in Your ... Jul 21, 2009
They may imitate James Joyce and opt for a stream of consciousness type of novel. There are dangers in this kind of writing. (Suite101.com)
Frank McCourt; storyteller hit gold in ‘Angela’s Ashes’ Jul 20, 2009
An early attempt, when he was studying at New York University, had fizzled out, but three decades later, he said, he had worked through his awkward, self-conscious James Joyce phase and had gotten beyond the crippling anger that darkened his memories. After 20 pages of standard omniscient author, I wrote something that I thought was just a note to myself, about sitting on a seesaw in a playground, and I found my voice, the voice of a child, he told The Providence Journal in 1997. (Boston Globe)
He wrote the stuff of Irish Jul 20, 2009
James Joyce masked his behind a prose so impenetrable as to be deniable as a testament to ethnicity. And for all that, he made a point of staying clear of Dublin once he'd described it. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Swiss cafe like night and day Jul 19, 2009
Over the years, Odeon has hosted Europe s famous and infamous, including James Joyce and Benito Mussolini. While you probably won t spot avant-garde authors or fascist dictators nowadays, you ll still find a restaurant that bustles day and night. (Boston Globe)
Grandson of Ernest Hemingway edits new version of author’s memoir Jul 10, 2009
Bumby calls Sylvia Beach owner of the Paris bookstore Shakespeare a supporter of young Hemingway and publisher of James Joyce Silver Beach. Monsieur Fitzgerald is sick Papa. (Helena Independent Record)
Sarah is the conservative’s Oprah Jul 9, 2009
No, ah don t know who James Joyce was and ah don t care. Is he runnin too. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Bills should be required reading Jul 8, 2009
The Republican party has become the James Joyce Part of Stream of Consciousness. Say hello to the US Dept. of Law that will protect Ms. Borderline Personality perpetual victim. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
For Colum McCann, familiar ground Jul 7, 2009
(McCann s work is often likened to that of James Joyce in its use of large casts of characters and interweaving story lines. . (Boston Globe)
Recent highlights from the Ideas blog: boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac Jul 5, 2009
James Joyce, Internet Visionary Several lit-bloggers, including Frank Wilson at Books, Inq. and Levi Asher at Literary Kicks, have flagged this typically allusive passage by James Joyce for its deployment of the word blog. (Boston Globe)
The Culture Gabfest, the Everybody's Dead Edition Jul 2, 2009
(Audiobook of the week: the unabridged Ulysses by James Joyce, read by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan. . (Slate)
Father Clary to return to St. Marys in Brookline as pastor Jul 2, 2009
It is a true reputation of the Catholic Church as James Joyce described it: Here comes everybody, he said. Neal Simpson can be reached at nsimpson@cnc. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Ark. town a forgotten haven for Hemingway Jul 2, 2009
town a forgotten haven for Hemingway. town a forgotten haven for Hemingway:/n/a/2009/07/01/entertainment/e210104D50. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Hung Will Make You Think Long and Hard About the State of the Economy Jun 27, 2009
I'm confident that he's never really read James Joyce, never learned that a pier is a disappointed bridge. But disappointment he knows down to the bone. (Slate)
Investment pays off for Big Rock winners Jun 18, 2009
Billfish release winner: 1, James Joyce II, captain Troy Pate (Durham), anglers Joyce Tipton and Chelsea Williams, four blue marlin hookups, four releases, $6,481. 25. (News & Observer -- Sports)
Wednesday, June 03, 2009, Ron Silliman, Sillimans Blog Jun 4, 2009
One can see this acted out almost with a stations-of-the-cross methodicalness by James Joyce as he moves from the fussy realism of The Dubliners to the modular realism(s) of Ulysses, each chapter presenting the tale processed through a different filter, to the filter-centric Finnegans Wake, wherein the tale, to the degree that there is one, is something heard over & over in what feels like a distant background, echoing like thunder. C.S. Lewis put that distinction a little historically... (Harper's Magazine)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Samuell Beckett spills his guts May 31, 2009
His first letter is addressed to his mentor, James Joyce, whom he served as a translator, researcher and general factotum throughout the decade. An aside reports on the usual drama with Joyce, and he might be obliquely reflecting on his own submissiveness when he sneers at admirers who would feel honored if Joyce signed a piece of his used toilet paper. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Obama "Confident" In Mideast Peace Process May 29, 2009
Meeting Palestinian Leader At White House, Obama Urges Israel To Stop Settlement Development. WASHINGTON, May 28, 2009. (CBS News)
What to tell my journalism grads May 25, 2009
Young people setting forth in the tradition of James Joyce to forge in the smithy of their souls the uncreated consciousness of their race need pipe dreams, not lectures, now as much as ever. When classes ended a few weeks ago, I looked out on the last day, traditionally reserved for pizza and a reading list, and I saw myself at that age: juiced with energy, low on wisdom, and champing at the bit to find my place in the world. (Boston Globe)
Mother, sick child, sought nationwide; arrest warrant seeks mom May 21, 2009
The family's doctor, James Joyce, testified by telephone that he examined Daniel on Monday, and that an X-ray showed his tumor had grown to the size it was when he was first diagnosed. "He had basically gotten back all the trouble he had in January," the doctor said. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Griffin: The subtle satisfaction of exchanging letters May 19, 2009
Or James Joyce s Dublin, at the beginning of the 20th. In those times and places, people were accustomed to sending a letter to a friend and getting a response delivered on the very same day. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
40 Under Forty: Shawn Allan May 12, 2009
Recently, he has been reading Ulysses by James Joyce and Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. Allan has been taking Spanish at Troy High School and volunteers with Capital District Community Gardens. (Albany Business Review, NY)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
They re not all literary, but: Brian Aldiss, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett (Watt and Murphy in particular), Saul Bellow, Alfred Bester (especially Tiger, Tiger), Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, John Brunner (especially Stand On Zanzibar), Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game), Ivor Cutler (Life in a Scotch Sitting Room), Samuel Delaney, T. S. Eliot (especially The Waste Land), Gunter Grass (the early works, especially The Tin Drum), Robert Graves,... (Suite101.com)
O'Brien's blog May 2, 2009
Digging the new Bob Dylan album, Together Through Life, particularly the cut I Feel a Change Comin On in which he says, I m listening to Billy Joe Shaver, and I m reading James Joyce. Some people they tell me I ve got the blood of the land in my voice. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Spring counterpart to fall Humanities Day in full bloom May 1, 2009
His work has been compared to Hemingway s novels, Sherwood Anderson s Winesburg, Ohio, and James Joyce s Dubliners. Though he s best known for his short stories, Dybek is also an accomplished poet. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
IN MY LIBRARY: SALMAN RUSHDIE Apr 28, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Last Update: 08:35 AM EDT. hide topics THIS WEEK'S HOT TOPICS. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Wellesley Community Commendables: April 23 Apr 28, 2009
A special thank you must go to Greg Story and James Joyce at the cable station who both convinced me that I should make a Public Service Announcement so that everyone (those for this project and those against it) were aware of the April 6th presentation so that they could also be heard. A special thank you to my fellow senior citizens who posted the flyer announcing the April 6th Town Meeting in their apartment and condominium complexes; your efforts brought out the support we needed to show... (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Chavez Gift: Book that Assails USA for Exploiting Latin America... Apr 19, 2009
Chavez Gifts Obama With Book That Assails U.S. for Exploiting Latin America - Political Punch. Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper. (The Drudge Report)
Inside the young writer's laboratory Apr 19, 2009
Although one of Beckett's friends said to him, "You don't love anything unless it's a failure," it's also helpful to know what the young Beckett loved: James Joyce, of course, but also Czanne, Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, Gottfried Keller's Green Henry. I mean, you can feel Beckett's world growing out of the tremendous culture that inspired him and gave him such comfort as he allowed himself. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Dame Edna begins her long goodbye Apr 12, 2009
There's a view out my window of what I think James Joyce called a snot-green sea. Q. Why, Dame Edna, does a woman of your accomplishments continue to endure such rigors. (Boston Globe)
Richard Wright Immortalized on Postage Apr 9, 2009
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You can feast at a library, but its costs are no fiction Mar 29, 2009
"Get Shorty" by Elmore Leonard, "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming, a handful of novels by Kurt Vonnegut, and Patricia Highsmith's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" -- my favorite Eisenhower era sociopath -- are on the list along with the novels of James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy and other dead wordsmiths you need for your reading merit badge. If the Carnegie can't provide all 1,001, it can come very close, and that singular service is "free to the people" just like Andy wanted. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Remembrance of things past and political Mar 29, 2009
James Joyce, for instance, linked different colors, scents and parts of the human body to each section of Ulysses. Guo employs many non-traditional stylistic devices as well. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Nothing matters but the letter writing - 1st Beckett volume shows master of silence was also habitual corresponder Mar 21, 2009
Of the great Modernists, in fact, it s Beckett who continues to speak most directly and freshly to our own experience of the world - and that includes his great friend and literary mentor, James Joyce, though saying so feels curiously like apostasy. Our renewed appreciation of this strange, wounded writer - a relentless artist and kindly man - has been abetted by a stream of extraordinary publications. (Missoulian, MT)
Irish village revels in its link to 'O'Bama' Mar 19, 2009
Its lyrics will win no awards in the land of James Joyce and William Butler Yeats ("He's as Irish as bacon and cabbage and stew/He's Hawaiian, he's Kenyan, American too"), and "Barack" is pronounced like a building that houses soldiers. But the Corrigans' homemade video on YouTube went from 25 hits in the beginning - which the brothers acknowledge were mostly their own - to millions from around the world. (Boston Globe)
Book Reviews: The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1 and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English Mar 19, 2009
He was often alone and lonely, but he had many friends, including James Joyce; the heiresses Nancy Cunard and Peggy Guggenheim; and the painter Jack Butler Yeats, the brother of William Butler Yeats. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Study abroad course combines CWU professor's passion for books, travel Mar 18, 2009
Home of James Joyce and other great writers. By that time, I d liked to travel, too. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Time to raise a glass – Irish eyes are smiling Mar 17, 2009
The floats include one for The Drunken Irish Novelists of Springfield, and one of the writers is obviously James Joyce. The character later starts a large-scale brawl, and in the confusion, a British-themed pub called John Bull's Fish and Chips is blown up. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
A near-perfect journey to The Holy City Mar 17, 2009
A James Joyce Songbook ... The Holy City was one of the inspirations of their Sunday afternoon program A James Joyce Songbook. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Recession blues sink parade o'green Mar 7, 2009
They may even read excerpts from James Joyce as they lay plans for a St. Patrick's Day parade next year. "We'll go as long as the money holds out," Brennan said. (Albany Times Union)
Poll reveals UK's reading secrets Mar 6, 2009
Ulysses - James Joyce (25%) 4. The Bible (24%) 5. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Experience Dublin like a local Mar 6, 2009
The excellent James Joyce Centre charges $6 (5 euros). The Dublin Writers Museum costs $10 (7. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
5 Things You Didn't Know: The Kin... Mar 5, 2009
At almost a thousand pages, and frequently concerned with graphic details of the Final Solution, this is no light read, but any book that draws comparisons to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and James Joyce probably deserves the attention. However, from the completely unforeseen nature of its success to its author's travels through violent war zones, there's more to The Kindly Ones than its critical reception (five more things, in fact). (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Most Britons have lied about the books they read Mar 5, 2009
According to the survey, 65 percent of people have pretended to have read books, and of those, 42 percent singled out "1984." Next on the list came "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy and in third place was James Joyce's "Ulysses." ... Ulysses - James Joyce (25). (Yahoo News)
Dazzling wordplay Mar 1, 2009
As Tristan Tzara (de)constructs Dadaist poetry with scissors and a hat, James Joyce dictates impenetrable passages of his novel Ulysses ... Stoppard wrote Travesties in 1974, inspired by the biographical account of a lawsuit James Joyce brought against Henry Carr, a minor official at the British consulate in Zurich during the First World War. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Christopher Nolan, novelist who battled cerebral palsy Feb 27, 2009
To keep the boy's mind stimulated, his father told stories and read passages from James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and D.H. Lawrence. His mother strung up letters of the alphabet in the kitchen, where she kept up a steady stream of conversation. (Boston Globe)
The writing's on the wall Feb 27, 2009
I wonder what my teachers would have made of a James Joyce manuscript. Crossing 7s. (BBC News -- UK)
Boston's wild Harry Crosby left a gilded legacy of Black Sun books Feb 22, 2009
Black Sun published James Joyce, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, Archibald MacLeish, Kay Boyle, and Max Ernst, among many. T. S. Eliot wrote an introduction to one book, Lawrence another. (Boston Globe)
'Travesties' missing the Wilde wit Feb 21, 2009
As an historical note, it is a production that actually took place in Zurich during World War I, staged as a theatrical diversion by an Irish writer and ex-pat named of James Joyce of Ulysses fame. And history also tells us that British diplomat Henry Carr was in that production, having been posted to in Zurich after being wounded in battle. (Jam! Showbiz)
Finding Travesties in the Stoppard archives Feb 19, 2009
Okay, so James Joyce, Lenin and Dadaist Tristan Tzara walk into a library in Zurich in 1917 Stoppard if you think you've heard this one before. Soulpepper Theatre Company continues its journey through British playwright Tom Stoppard's rich back catalogue with 1974's Travesties, a Tony winner in which the aforementioned writer, revolutionary and artist meet in neutral Switzerland during the First World War. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Seat 2B: Luxury travel for less Feb 7, 2009
Dublin's Merrion Hotel is the very model of a modern luxury lodging: five-star rating; four landmark Georgian townhouses; two gardens; Michelin two-star dining room; prestigious art collection; 142 gracious guest rooms and suites; spa and indoor pool; statue of James Joyce; and a stratospheric rate structure that starts at 455 euros (about $590) a night. But surf to the Merrion Web site these days and you'll find all of that luxury on sale for as little as 199 euros a night. (MSNBC -- Travel)
