The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-10-02 09:01:07 UTC ]
Two writers discuss the literary forebears who directly inspired their latest novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
I’d bought my copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses at a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan in 1999, the summer before I left for college, along with a stack of other novels that I was convinced my much-smarter classmates would have already read. How I even decided which novels those were, I am still not... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-14 08:56:12 UTC ]
Every author wants to write a book like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Two decades after it first hit the shelves, the author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow celebrates its daring, dazzling appealPity the writer who believes they have written the next Cloud Atlas! A literary agent once... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-04-06 10:00:31 UTC ]
The group in California started on the notoriously challenging novel by James Joyce in 1995. In October, it reached the end. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-07 10:40:10 UTC ]
He saw the world’s cruel absurdities through a comic lens, writes Boyd, who recalls his very first meeting with Amis – and explains why his unmistakable voice will never be forgotten• John Self on Amis: ‘He stamped his style over a generation’• Geoff Dyer on Amis: ‘Mick Jagger in literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-22 07:00:49 UTC ]
Some in the book industry have already begun exploring automation of its pitches to readers. We took this functionality for a test drive“Blurb writing is a mini art form,” Iris Murdoch once wrote in a letter to former Penguin blurb writer Elizabeth Buchan. And like many other art forms,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-05-16 09:00:05 UTC ]
If the literary landscape of the early twentieth century, at least when it comes to short stories, is dominated by Anglophone writers like Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, then the mid-twentieth century arguably belongs to the Latin American writers who helped to move the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-03-05 18:00:38 UTC ]
I’ll revisit "Ulysses" on its 100th anniversary and delve into "Cheri" as well as works by wonderful modern writers like Guy Gavriel Kay. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-15 16:48:29 UTC ]
Kerri Maher’s novel “The Paris Bookseller” celebrates the life of American Sylvia Beach, a bookstore owner who saw promise in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-01-11 20:01:10 UTC ]
‘The Dead’ is the most critically acclaimed and widely studied story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, a collection of 15 short stories written by James Joyce and published in 1914. As we’ve remarked before, Dubliners is now regarded as one of the landmark texts of modernist literature, but initially... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-05-29 14:00:07 UTC ]
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories written by James Joyce and published in 1914. As we’ve remarked before, Dubliners is now regarded as one of the landmark texts of modernist literature, but initially sales were poor, with just 379 copies being sold in the first year (famously, 120 […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-03-27 15:50:27 UTC ]
On February 2, 1922, Sylvia Beach, through her legendary bookstore and occasional imprint Shakespeare and Company, published the entirety of James Joyce’s modernist novel, Ulysses. (It was also Joyce’s 40th birthday.) Two years later, she sought to have at least some of it recorded in Joyce’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-02 15:29:36 UTC ]
Republic of Consciousness prize honours Will Eaves and Alex Pheby, but says awards make us wrongly consider a sole winner ‘the best’A novel about James Joyce’s troubled daughter, Lucia, and a reimagining of the chemical castration of Alan Turing have been named the joint winners of the Republic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novels inspired by the lives of Alan Turing and James Joyce's daughter are among 13 works of fiction in the running for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
From business "agility" to a memoirist's breakthrough–with Beckett and James Joyce in the mix, as well–these are books to consider and watch as we go deeper into the season. The post Rights Roundup: A Post-Frankfurt Look at a Range of Titles and Rights Sales appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year marks a century since the publication of "Dubliners" by James Joyce, and a year since writer and editor Thomas Morris struck on an idea to riff on the literary classic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
So you're an admirer of James Joyce's "Ulysses"? Well, thank Trieste for that book. So you're an admirer of James Joyce's "Ulysses"? Well, thank Trieste for that book. Why? Gordon Bowker's "James Joyce: A New Biography" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 608 pp., $35) shows readers how living in that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]