Trapped in the Nightmare: A Bloomsday Dark Devotional

June 16 is Bloomsday — a special day for Irish literary geeks, on which fans of James Joyce’s Ulysses gather in Dublin to retrace the steps–and drink the drinks–of the novel’s hero, Leopold Bloom, who both starts and finishes his surreal Odyssean journey in his wife’s bed.   Ulysses, with its ring-like structure and themes [Read More...]