Now that the work of James Joyce has entered the public domain in Europe this year's Bloomsday celebration takes on a new twist.Take the LiberateUlysses project for one. A project spearheaded by uber James Joyce fan Steve Cole. You might remember Cole from last Bloomsday when he held a 24 hour tweet-a-thon of Ulysses.LiberateUlysses "encourages Joyce lovers everywhere to express their personal vision of Ulysses with whatever medium they have at hand, be it social or not, this Bloomsday (16 June)." Here's a sampling what's happened to date:Ithaca a painting by Marija GirevskaSamantha Extance has created a line of “steampunk...
James Joyce: Then and Now
First Edition of Ulysses by James Joyce. Published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922The beginning of Ulysses as it appeared on Twitter June, 16, 2011. In honor of Bloomsday, the novel is being tweeted in 140 character increments @11yssesThis is not the first time the paths of Twitter and Ulysses crossed. In 2007, before Twitter was a household name, the folks at Booktwo.org tweeted the entire novel. It took 257 days! See more at our piece from Dec. '07, The Twitter Edition of James Joyce's Ulysses. Leopold Bloom The portrait of Leopold Bloom above is from Ulysses "Seen". A new...
The Birth of Ulysses in America
Martha Scotford has a fantastic piece over at Design Observer titled Ulysses: Fast Track to 1934 Best Seller that looks at the publication and design history of this hi-spot of 20th literature.The piece highlights Bennett Cerf's, then publisher at Random House, commitment to the book and the legal challenges he faced in getting it published. It also focuses on the brilliant book design by Ernest Reichl, who Scotford calls "a ‘whole book’ designer, believing in the harmonious totality of the package and the value of one design vision for all its parts."Here are a few nuggets:- First published in Paris...