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French graphic designer and typographer Robert Massin was born OTD 100 years ago. He designed Gallimard's semi-luxueuse Collection Soleil and the cover template for the mass market Folio paperbacks. Ulysses was published under both imprints.
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"Thirtyish academic wishes to meet woman who's interested in Mozart, James Joyce, and sodomy." - Annie Hall
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"Roy might know who James Joyce is, I’m not sure, but it wouldn’t matter. You mention books to Roy and he thinks you’re trying to act superior." - Bandits Elmore Leonard was born OTD 100 years ago
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So the first thing I do is buy Finnegans Wake and I read a chapter and it’s GREAT and I dug it and I felt like—here’s an old friend! - John Lennon, born OTD in 1940
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“In Stein’s triumphalist view, Picasso had killed off 19th-century art just as her own experimental writing—not James Joyce’s or T.S. Eliot’s or Virginia Woolf’s—had put the era’s literature out of its misery.” @francescawade
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nytimes.com
The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word.
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Boni & Liveright published Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time OTD 100 years ago
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American writer and public intellectual Gore Vidal was born OTD 100 years ago.
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true, generally. but there is a limit!
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O no, Vincent, Lenehan said, laying a hand on the shoulder near him, have no fear. He could not leave his mother an orphan. - Ulysses September 30 is the feast day of Jerome, patron saint of orphans and abandoned children.
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Irish author, politician and polymath Darrell Figgis died by his own hand OTD 100 years ago. He wrote books on many topics but is largely forgotten today.
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September 26 is the feast day of Cosmas and Damian, patron saints of pharmacists
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What book left you cold? “Books that are often taught for whole semesters by college professors – James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Ulysses…and any number of modern novels that don’t have a nice, simple story about human beings that I care about.” https://t.co/4d88S60wLY
dailymail.co.uk
Woody Allen answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, and what left him cold?
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Why is everyone staging Waiting for Godot right now? https://t.co/F95J8DVoLL
cbc.ca
Theatre critic Aisling Murphy talk about the staying power of the famous Samuel Beckett play, 72 years after it was first staged.
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“Scott went back to a modernist literary classic to find inspiration…. ‘I was high on Ulysses by James Joyce at this point, mainly because Joyce is such a visual writer’” https://t.co/bq93lrLEIc
faroutmagazine.co.uk
The man behind movies including Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, Ridley Scott has a surprising choice when it comes to his favourite of his films.f
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