Litblog’s weekly tweets -
by Mr Monkey
- - Metempsychosis, he said, frowning. It’s Greek: from the Greek. That means the transmigration of souls. #
- - O, rocks! she said. Tell us in plain words. #
- 9:15AM; “Kingstown pier,” Stephen said. “Yes, a disappointed bridge.” RT @UlyssesSeen #
- A good introduction to Joyce’s Ulysses, from the TMO archives, for Bloomsday
http://bit.ly/G6MW5 # - Bloomin’ Marvellous - James Joyce and Trieste
http://bit.ly/AGLz1 # - “that any of us are actually writing novels post-Joyce has often struck me as hard to justify” -novelist John Wray
http://bit.ly/3Cf7Z # - I feel that without a doubt he [Joyce] is the single most overrated novelist of the twentieth century - Tim Parks
http://bit.ly/3F22P # - 5 copies of The Bloomsday Dead to those picked out of a hat at 5pm today. In Ulysses, what is Mr Bloom’s first name? RT @serpentstailpr #
- RT @chanezon: RT @timeapp: New blog post: Rare recording of James Joyce reading; http://timeapp.net/?p=2081 RT @kennethcdavis #
- Bloom Tweets - a Bloomsday literary experiment
http://bit.ly/3XcbyE # - You may be detecting a theme here…
Interview with Sean Walsh, director of Ulysses adaptation Bloom
http://bit.ly/rqVS5 # - No novelist can escape Joyce, or should wish to. I think of him almost daily – the kidney for breakfast… Nadeem Aslam http://bit.ly/kmHiA #
- Bore this. Bored Bloom tambourined gently with I am just reflecting fingers on flat pad Pat brought #
- I’ll tickle his catastrophe, believe you me. #
- Something is burning outside - a story by Hungarian Author Laszlo Krasznahorkai
http://bit.ly/ozhIt # - Irvine Welsh reviews Liz Jensen’s new novel ‘The Rapture’http://bit.ly/113xi4 #
- A brief review of Raymond Queneau’s The Flight of Icarus
http://bit.ly/J2QNA # - “Alas, he revealed much more about his own social anxieties than he did about my criticism.” James Wood hits back
http://bit.ly/fBamw # - Denis Donohgue on Yeats & Eliot in the Dublin Review of Books: http://bit.ly/u7Ln2
rt @ericdolphy # - Just off the phone interviewing Peter Murphy - enjoyed ‘john the revelator’ a lot. Interview will be up on tmo next week. #
- John Higgs on avoiding long books
http://bit.ly/GEFIW # - Bitter Spring: A life of Ignazio Silone reviewed
http://bit.ly/Ikm52 # - In what country, apart from Israel, do Grossman, Oz, and Yehoshua all write regular newspaper columns?
http://bit.ly/2YClK # - Marcela Valdes on The Fiction of Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra
http://bit.ly/fT4z # - 5 copies of Paolo Giordano’s Solitude of Prime Numbers to give away - details here
http://bit.ly/Mbv1e please rt # - The Naked Lunch - 50 years on
http://bit.ly/5ygxF #
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