Fiction
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Getting Closer! The Film Version of Joyce’s The Dead (John Huston’s Masterpiece)
We’re closing in! For those of you following along, we’re only a few days away from the culmination of our Dubliners project. If you haven’t been reading the stories each day, don’t worry. This isn’t assigned reading; I don’t give out homework. Except for one thing. This year, you must reserve some time for The Dead on… Continue reading
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Christmas Is a Time to Read-Joyce: Clay
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] CLAY THE matron had given her leave to go out as… Continue reading
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A Marriage at Odds (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Time for another Objectino!* This one comes straight from the underbelly of a marriage… A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO WIFE: [looking out the window] Oh great. It’s raining out. What are the odds that today is Saturday? HUSBAND: One in seven. WIFE: [exasperated] You know what I mean. It was sunny all week when I was stuck in that stupid… Continue reading
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Christmas Is A Time to Read-Joyce: Counterparts
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] COUNTERPARTS THE bell rang furiously and, when Miss Parker went to… Continue reading
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Saul Bellow and Austin Powers: Together At Last!
Wonderful reader arabpikachuwp4 responds to my post about Saul Bellow’s indie-author spirit: I can imagine Austin Powers saying “I too like to live dangerously” to Saul Bellow, lol. Lol indeed! I don’t think my own mind would have made that jump in a million years. But I’m glad someone’s did, because I’ve been laughing about it… Continue reading
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A James Joyce Christmas: A Little Cloud
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] A LITTLE CLOUD EIGHT years before he had seen his friend… Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 5 – The Gift
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Hmm, Episode 5 is shorter than usual. Maybe because I had TWO embarrassing vacuum cleaner stories and I only told ONE of them. I’ll have to save it for the Director’s Cut edition. It’s one of the cardinal rules of professional podcasting: do not tell two embarrassing… Continue reading
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Christmas Is A Time to Read-Joyce: The Boarding House
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to “The Dead” on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to join us!] THE BOARDING HOUSE MRS. MOONEY was a butcher’s daughter. She was… Continue reading
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A Joycean Christmas: Two Gallants
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to The Dead on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to catch up and join us!] TWO GALLANTS THE grey warm evening of August… Continue reading
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A Joycean Christmas: After the Race
[Note: We’re reading one of James Joyce’s Dubliners stories each day until we get to The Dead on Christmas Eve. You can read more about the project on the first day’s installment. If you’re arriving late, fear not: it’s not too late to catch up and join us!] AFTER THE RACE THE cars came scudding in… Continue reading
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