Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson, live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in 1922. 

In episode three in they skip through main plot points of Aeolus and Lestrygonians, ask what these chapters might reveal about Joyce’s views on technology, discuss the role of rhetoric in shaping the novel, and turn to a Leonard Cohen for help in understanding the formal innovation that appears in these pages.

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The Ulysses guides they refer to include:

Kiberd, Ulysses and Us: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571242559/ulysses-and-us-the-art-of-everyday-living

Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9781421443492/the-guide-to-james-joyces-ulysses

Killeen, Ulysses Unbound: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780141999760/ulysses-unbound-a-readers-companion-to-james-joyces-ulysses

Gilbert, James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study

Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book

A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. 

In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of democracy.

Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in French as Défense de nourrir les vieux.

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