'Still not obscure enough" was James Joyce's explanation to Jacques Mercanton on being caught "gleefully" inserting into a passage from Work in Progress words plucked from the Samoyed language spoken ...

The word “epiphany” was important to Joyce. His work is so full of incredible richness and strangeness and pleasure. He’s our Cole Porter, our Bob Dylan, our Bessie Smith. You dance with him, weep ...

Every writer who has trouble getting published should know the story of James Joyce’s attempt to see his first book in print Every writer who has trouble getting published should know the story of ...

The geography of a city in all of its social, industrial, and personal complexity can perhaps never be fully outlined by words alone. A city is a being that sighs in sorrow and beams in happiness, yet ...

Were it not for the pusillanimity of publishers and printers, we might have celebrated the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's Dubliners in 2006 or 2009. But Joyce's refusal to cut or edit ...

Irish writer and scholar Declan Kiberd said of James Joyce: "Many of the great modern writers, from Conrad to Sartre, saw theirs as a literature of extreme situations, but Joyce was exceptional among ...