This week, Scarlett Baron puzzles over an attempt to cut Joyce down to size; and Ian Sansom on the sobering realities of balancing the books if you want to be an artist.

'A Shorter Ulysses', by James Joyce and Anthony Burgess

'Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in funding a creative life', by Mason Currey

'How to Enter the Art World: After a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence/leaving it in disgust ...', by Hettie Judah

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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