Literature
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“Prophet Song” … a Wakeup Call for All Who Listen
This book, winner of one of the literary world’s most prestigious awards—the 2023 Booker Prize for the “best piece of English language fiction published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in a given year” —is my first introduction to the Irish writer Paul Lynch. For some readers, Lynch’s depiction of a society unravelling under a totalitarian government in the Republic of Ireland—is a figment of a wild imagination; for others tuned in to our changing […] Read More
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Review: “Telling Stories,” by Sabina Clarke
“Telling Stories” is a compilation of interviews by journalist Sabina Clarke, based upon conversations convened with the 44 individuals highlighted in this eclectic book. Spanning Ms. Clarke’s career from 1988 to 2019, the personalities on display offer a spectacular array of human crisis, candor, and interest. Figures defining in the history of Northern Ireland discuss with Clarke the details and process of that region’s peace negotiations, including Gerry Adams and Sen. George Mitchell, respectively interviewed in […] Read More
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Celebrate Joyce’s “Ulysses” in Mt. Holly, NJ with Music and a Free Lunch Taken from the Novel
Bloomsday is celebrated around the world, usually on June 16, the day James Joyce’s character Leopold Bloom took his storied walk around Dublin in the book, Ulysses. In Philadelphia, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, which houses the original handwritten manuscript of the book that took Joyce seven years to write and most people a lifetime to read, hosts 10 hours of readings by local actors, scholars, and dignitaries at its location in Delancey Place. This year, […] Read More