Frank Delaney's Re: Joyce
Re: Joyce! On the international literary feast day of Bloomsday 2010, we launched a podcast to commemorate James Joyce's mighty novel, "Ulysses", the action of which took place in 18 hours of June 16, 1904. Every week you'll find a five-minute mini-essay from me designed to take you through the novel that's on every list of the greatest books ever written. And as Ulysses runs to some 375,000 words, and I mean to go through it sentence by sentence if I have to, in order to convey the full brilliance of this novel - and the enjoyment to be had from it - I'll be podcasting for some time to come! It's such an absorbing book, it's got diamond mines of references, it's so compassionate, so tender, so moving, so funny - and most of us never know that, because most of us have long been daunted by it. No need to be afraid any more - that is, if you make a habit of listening to these podcasts.

Mr. Bloom's soft porn stirs his thoughts of reincarnation.

Direct download: 181_Naked_Nymphs.mp3
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Frank's bonus edition looks at the man who wrote The Odyssey. Or did he? And was it a man?

Direct download: 180A_Hitting_a_Homer.mp3
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Mr. Bloom's interest is whipped up by Ruby, the Pride of the Ring.

Direct download: 180_Circus_Lives.mp3
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Do we hear a different kind of chamber music?

Direct download: 179_Garters__Greek.mp3
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Poor Mr. Bloom fears the local Don Giovanni.

Direct download: 178_Molly__Mozart.mp3
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