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Why Bloomsday Is Special This Year

This weekend I am traveling to a dual celebration, of a great Irish writer and of copyright freedom. For June 16 is Bloomsday, the day in 1904 captured through the eyes of Leopold Bloom by James Joyce in his epic novel Ulysses. Each year in Dublin fans of Joyce gather to celebrate the work in a day of public readings conducted at locations across the city that are featured in the book.

2012 is a special year for these Joyceans. The 71st since Joyce’s death, it marks the first — across the EU at any rate — that his work may be shared freely among them, without needing permission — for public readings, performances, or re-interpretations — from his estate. This is no small matter: since inheriting the estate in 1982, Joyce’s grandson Stephen Joyce has gained a reputation as the most controlling literary executor in history. 

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Happy early Bloomsday, book nerds!

I will be moving house on Bloomsday this year (pity; I was hoping to go to the JHU festivities), but heartily looking forward to settling down in our new house in the evening, with a glass of wine and some choice passages.

For this reason, three books remain unpacked in our apartment: My current read, Chris’s current read, and Ulysses.

(via glassescase)