Thank you my friends! It was a memorable one for sure.

Ulysses is good. I didn't know people generally made it out to be difficult... I think it's some of his more straightforward work. Check out Finnegans Wake when you're done if you still have an appetite for Joyce. Sections of it seem difficult. More difficult than Dubliners and A Portrait anyway. I...

Currently working my way through Ulysses for a seminar. It's a trip. This is my first time, and so far I really don't think it's as tough going as people make it out to be. Maybe I'm just used to not knowing what's going on in my literature. Parts of the first section were goosebump-inducing. Still,...

This summer: Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. My first experience with Pynchon. The man's mind is incredible; rivals Joyce in terms of its scope. No doubt that Pynchon is one of the greatest American minds (literary anyway) of the past century. This one is of particular interest to me, as it fol...