Episode 19: Ulysses, Part 1

After these next two episodes, will Megan manage to convince Katie and Tristan that our novel in question is hysterically funny and good indeed, or will we remain a Pod Divided?

We know you jerks have just been up nights waiting for this one--we’ll be spending two episodes tackling James Joyce’s big-ass 1918 or 1922 novel Ulysses. We talk about form and structure, poo jokes, Irish history, day drinking, the little magazine, and King F*ckboy Stephen Dedalus. We propose that James Joyce would almost certainly have been the most fun high modernist to drink whiskey with, and… that’s about the only point of agreement.

We read the Gabler edition, with a preface by Richard Ellmann. We recommend skipping other books and either reading the back of a Jameson bottle or listening to the BBC radio drama from 2012: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jl7l9

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