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A TIME Writer to Remember: Paul Gray, 1940-2010
When Paul Gray left the English faculty at Princeton for a job at TIME in 1972, he quickly discovered a gifted new writer: himself. He established a reputation...
The People v. James Joyce
Happy Bloomsday! Stanford University professor Carol Shloss marked the 102nd anniversary last week of the epic trek through Dublin by Stephen Bloom, hero of...
A Night to Remember
You certainly can't tell this book by its cover — a portrait of five men, in formal smoking jackets and white ties, at the champagne-and-cigar end of a meal...
Books: A Student Of History
History. James Joyce called it a nightmare from which he was trying to awake. But for E.L. Doctorow it's more of an ill-defined dream state that he doggedly...
The Writer JAMES JOYCE
James Joyce once told a friend, "One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature." All...
Theater: Dead Serious
Chances are slim that you will soon be hearing the following line spoken in theatergoing homes across America: "Hey, honey, let's grab the kids, fly to New York...
Making Mischief in Dublin
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man famously begins, "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the...
Books: James in Nighttown
SELECTED LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE Edited by RICHARD ELLMANN 440 pages. Viking. $18.95. $5.95 paperback. JAMES JOYCE: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST by STAN GEBLER...
Books: Happy Birthyear
Dublin jumps for Joyce In Dublin's fair city, a new plaque adorns a dingy, red brick house at 52 Upper Clanbrassil Street. It identifies the birthplace of...
Cinema: Huston's Serene Farewell THE DEAD
The young James Joyce wrote The Dead in some disillusionment. It was the last story of Dubliners, a group of tales setting forth the cramped spirit of the...
Books 1939: Finnegans Wake By James Joyce
Night Thoughts FINNEGANS WAKEJames JoyceViking ($5). All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of...
Books: Distinguished Simplicity
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, VOLUMES II AND III. Edited by Richard Ellmann. 1,056 pages. Viking. $25 for the pair. It is doubtful that a man can be known from his...
Books: Odyssey of a Corrected Classic
ULYSSES: A CRITICAL AND SYNOPTIC EDITION Prepared by Hans Walter Gabler; Garland; 3 volumes; 1,919 pages; $200 For 62 years, scholars and zealous readers have...
Show Business: John Huston Raises The Dead
At first glance the symbolism is painfully apparent. On the set of his 37th feature film, in a makeshift studio 35 miles north of Los Angeles and a world away...
Books: Dublin's Prodigal Son
JAMES JOYCE (842 pp.)Richard EllmannOxford ($12.50). During World War I, James Joyce mailed his manuscript of Ulysses, bit by bit, from Zurich to London,...
Books: Stephen Bloom
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE (437 pp.)Edited by Stuart GilbertViking ($7.50) James Joyce, the great artificer of words who both revitalized and nearly destroyed the...
Books: Bloomsday's Child
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: JAMES JOYCE'S EARLY YEARS (266 pp.)Stanislaus Joyce Viking ($5). "Lives of great men all remind us friends .will make them less...
Cinema: Not the Best, Not the Worst
Ulysses. James Joyce was movie crazy. In the days before his eyes went bad, he saw every film he could, and in 1909 he established and managed the first movie...
Books: Publishing Was His Line
AT RANDOM by Bennett Cerf; Random House; 306 pages; $12.95 Before he came along, publishing was a gentleman's profession, and books were sold with dignity and...
Books: Sinking Stones
GIACOMO JOYCE by James Joyce. With an introduction and notes by Richard Ellmann. 16 pages. Viking. $10. Discovered in a dusty trunk in Trieste, a hitherto...
