James Joyce

Bloom in Offal, or, Liffey Ways to Love Your Liver

Various offal delicacies (heads, brains, trotters and tripe) for sale in an Istanbul meat market. (Wikipedia) Since we go out of our way to include, within the modest meat portion of our diet, regular servings of chicken liver...

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Winterland, By Alan Glynn

Pressure builds in the fair city Although the credit crunch is causing the odd hiccup, the city of Dublin maintains its frenzy of property development. Walk through such areas as James Joyce's "Nighttown", and the working girls...

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misery will be your study buddy!

As ninamazing brought up in her own post, last evening's The Daily Show was one of the best in awhile. Go watch it here. Tonight I am: Going to the gym for pre-Thanksgiving, last-chance work out. Attempting a gingerbread...

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Béaloideas ar fáil i bhfoirm digiteach ar JSTOR (Journal Béaloideas is now available digitally on...

Go raibh maith agat, a Phatricia. Is fada lucht béaloideasa ar líne (Folklore followers online) ag feitheamh leis an dea-scéala thíos (have long been awaiting the good news below), atá á scaipeadh agam anois (which I am...

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William Carlos Williams Biography

American Poet, Short Story Writer and Novelist, Known for Paterson American poet, short story writer and novelist W.C. Williams, also an obstetrician, was a prolific poet and writer. American poet, short story writer and...

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School let Brother teach after sex attacks on 19 boys

By Barry Duggan Tuesday November 24 2009 A FORMER Christian Brother who indecently assaulted 19 boys aged between seven and nine was moved to another school after a principal was informed of one of the crimes, a court was told...

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Slaughterhouse-Five

In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a man who has come unstuck in time. Much of Billy’s time is spent during World War II. As an new soldier, Billy is sent to the front, where he is...

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Hot Mormon Muffins and Models for Jesus: What's With All the Sexy Christians?

By Liz Langley, SeXis Magazine. The weaving of assertive sexuality and assertive spirituality is bizarre, untried terrain. Share and save this post: Upcoming AlterNet stories on Digg My friend Jim is really good at what he...

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About that Ulysses Recording

One of the oddities in the LibriVox catalog is our recording of James Joyce’s Ulysses. It gets not-infrequent complaints, well-deserved I suppose if a listener is expecting, oh, an audiobook of James Joyce’s Ulysses. While some...

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Goings on About Town: Holiday Events

goatTitle-->“RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR” This show has it all: high-kicking Rockettes, dancing toys, a live orchestra, ice skaters, 3-D visuals, fireworks, and even a donkey or two for the final scene, the climactic...

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