Hints and tips:
...Cord Jefferson, buoyed by the Oscar nominations, has said he hopes the film will help lead to a greater variety of black stories in Hollywood....
...Before I begin feeling altogether too sober I ready the drinks, namely the bottles of 1878 Lafitte bordeaux bought for $400,000 by billionaire Bill Koch on the understanding they once belonged to Thomas Jefferson...
...To mark the centenary of Ulysses I’ve taken a renewed run at Joyce’s masterpiece via Jim Norton’s entertaining reading in which he brings the book’s baffling, polyphonic charm to life....
...Whitman founded the idiosyncratic Left Bank bookshop Shakespeare and Company, named in homage to the prewar store once run by James Joyce’s Paris publisher....
...Jefferson Wagner, Malibu mayor and a former stuntman, saved several neighbours’ homes but lost his own....
...There is no Scottish equivalent of the fiery debate between WB Yeats and James Joyce on whether to stay or go, the embers of which continue to scorch Irish society....
...It reminded me of the way James Joyce remained in Ireland even after he left Ireland. The mind reels. But my soul tells me to howl: “Enough!”...
...Strick reworks Joyce’s novel into a farce about sexual frustration and religious intolerance, while retaining an impressive amount of Joyce’s structure, dialogue and narration....
...I also like 1970s west coast rock music such as the Eagles, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. And I listen to Radio 4 a lot. Ideal travelling companion – dead, alive, historical, fictional?...
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