Short Stories
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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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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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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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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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Writers Laughing: Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore laughing? I doubt it! She makes other people laugh, with her caustic observations and acid puns. I doubt you’d ever see much more from her than a bitter half-smile, a knowing eyebrow lift, maybe an amused and slightly sinister glint in her eyes… Oh no. Oh no no no no no. What are you… Continue reading
Jacke Wilson 