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Tag Archives: James Joyce
Bloomsday and Ulysses
Today is Bloomsday. The day when James Joyce fans insist on re-reading an unreadable book, eating fried kidney for breakfast and walking around Dublin in Edwardian costumes following the steps of literature’s most unlikely hero, Leopold Bloom. I don’t do most of those myself, but it’s not out of a lack of desire. I do pick the book off my shelf and read it again, and maybe watch one of the dramatisations, and always find myself saying ‘next year in …
The book of love
And so to the next installment of my utterly crazy ’11 before 11.11.2011′ indie publishing venture. Following the launch of The Girl With the Bomb Inside last month, this month sees the release of Train Can’t Bring Me Home. I’m particularly thrilled to publish this as it’s been a labour of love for the last 18 years: a postmodern campus novel that explores the limits of love, literature and language in a dizzying, intellectual, comic, erotic clash of literary styles. …
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former eastern bloc is open for business and a war is raging just over the border, but in a Hungarian campus town, a group of students and exiles escape into love and literature. Dylan, a washed up American lecturer with a Tom Waits fixation, has an affair with Erzsi, his vivacious teenage Hungarian student, and a mixed group of students and teachers spend a crazy spring falling in love …
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It’s the little things that count…
I don’t normally write about TV series once I’ve already taken a look at them. But with the second season of Mad Men now airing on BBC4, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to immerse myself in it again, having only scratched the glossy surface of season one. And besides, this is Mad Men, quite possibly the greatest TV drama series of all time. It is easy to be seduced by the surface pleasures of Mad Men. It has so many …