Fiction
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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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Reader Comment: More Thoughts on the Foxes
My favorite part of running this blog, by miles and miles, is reading the comments. Sometimes they make me laugh, sometimes they make me think, and sometimes they are very moving. Often it’s all of the above. And then there are those that make me proud. Because they say flattering things about the writing (thank you, everyone!). Or… Continue reading
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A Joycean Christmas: Eveline
[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!] EVELINE SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the… Continue reading
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The Shirt Pocket Avatar (A Jacke Wilson Objectino)
Back to the workplace for another Objectino!* A JACKE WILSON OBJECTINO Overheard in an office meeting: MAN: I realized the other day that my shirt pockets are so thin you can see my photo ID through them. For years there’s been this little me riding around in my shirt, right on my chest, where everyone could… Continue reading
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A Time to Read Joyce: Araby
[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!] ARABY NORTH RICHMOND STREET, being blind, was a quiet street except… Continue reading
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A Time to Read Joyce: An Encounter
[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!] AN ENCOUNTER IT WAS Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West… Continue reading
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It’s The Jacke Wilson Show! Episode 4 – The Worst Thing I Ever Did (Part Two)
ONE…ONE ONE…ONE ONE… IT’S THE JACKE WILSON SHOW!!!!! Episode 4 is here! I’m back to my four a.m. silent-house stage whisper. You didn’t think that afternoon voice would last forever, did you? Luckily I have a good microphone and an up-close personality. Or you can use it as white noise, to drift away to dreamland. I’m… Continue reading
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