by Tasha Jones | Feb 20, 2017 | Reading Groups Posts
All you need is a copy of Ulysses and an open mind. The group meets twice monthly at the School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia.
by Tasha Jones | Jun 14, 2016 | Archive
A couple of years ago I saw a movie called The Joycean Society by Dora Garcia. It’s a short documentary about a group of people who have been meeting once a week for thirty years to read James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The film excited me and I was so jealous of those...
by Tasha Jones | Jun 1, 2016 | Archive
I have to confess I’d never heard of a bog until I met Dr. Derek Gladwin. Have you? Bogs are a type of wetland. They accumulate with organic material, namely dead plants. They are wet, they shift, and they are swampy and dangerous. Now most of us have heard of the...
by Tasha Jones | May 25, 2016 | Archive
I set-up an interview with Andre Furlani and I know I’m going to get schooled. But I’m glad. Andre knows his Joyce and his Beckett; I can hardly speak to a more knowledgeable person on the topic. He’s a professor at Concordia University as well as the Chair of the...
by Tasha Jones | May 19, 2016 | Archive
As I prepare for my interview with the actor, Kathleen Fee, I look through my undergraduate copy of Ulysses. I see a big red dot that I marked right before the Penelope episode. But years later the significance of this dot escapes me. The dot makes me worry. Will I...
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