One hundred years ago, on June 16th, 1904, James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom stepped out into the streets of Dublin, in the pages of Joyces’s Ulysses, and one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century was born.
Joyce’s revolutionary novel was published in 1922, to both high critical acclaim and high controversy. The book was banned in many countries and not published in the United States until 1934. In the years since, Leopold Bloom’s epic ramble has come to be celebrated around the world, from the streets of Dublin, to today’s special Bloomsday logo on Google’s homepage.
Isaiah Sheffer is host of NPR’s “Selected Shorts”, and co-founder of New York City’s Symphony Space. Today, he is hosting “Bloomsday on Broadway”, a 12-hour performance of Ulysses in New York. In this radio diary, Isaiah Sheffer and actress Carid O’Brien, celebrate the 100th anniversary of James Joyce’s Bloomsday.
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