James Joyce

Free Will Astrology: February 8-14, 2011

Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers

Tom PalumboJack Kerouac, on the road somewhere ...​ For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that ... More >>

Weekend: When Godard Burned the Movie House Down

Road-trip revolution

Celebrate Bloomsday in NYC, Get Drunk For Free

​James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses is set on Thursday, June 16th in Dublin, Ireland, and every year since 1954, literary nerds around the world have gathered together to celebrate Bloomsday. The holiday is named for the novel's protagonist, Leopold Bloom. Typical celebrations of Bloomsday have ... More >>

Kate Bush's Rework

The singer streamlines her back catalog on Director's Cut

Joan La Barbara

The singer streamlines her back catalog on Director's Cut

DEATH BECOMES HER

Sheila Callaghan returns to the scene of the crime

Madonna's Daughter and Kurt Vonnegut: A Literary Comparison

​We were just checking Madonna and her daughter's blog today, like we do every day, and got to thinking: Who does Lourdes write like? David Foster Wallace? F. Scott Fitzgerald? The answer is actually Kurt Vonnegut. Well, that's what I Write Like, the site where you can copy and paste your dr ... More >>

President Obama's Dog Is Worth Less Than a James Joyce First Edition, More Than a Golf Tourney

​President Obama's financial disclosure form has been released, and among the salient nuggets are his Vanguard retirement fund (us, too!), his $1.4 million from the Nobel Peace Prize (which he donated to charity), and the news that his Portuguese water dog, Bo, (a gift from the late Senator Ed ... More >>

The Fourth Annual Village Voice Readers' Film Poll -- The Best Films of 1967!

"We rob banks."​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 17 Films by Andrew Sarris The readers of The Village Voice have responded in unprecedented numbers to the fourth annual poll of ten-best lists. For the record, the previous winners are "D ... More >>

Fringe Festival 2009 Reviews

"We rob banks."​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 17 Films by Andrew Sarris The readers of The Village Voice have responded in unprecedented numbers to the fourth annual poll of ten-best lists. For the record, the previous winners are "D ... More >>

Live: 25th Anniversary of the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime at the Bowery Poetry Club

25th Anniversary of the Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime featuring Richard Hell, Mike Watt, Bass Player from Handjob, and More Bowery Poetry Club Saturday, July 25 "What is punk?!" squeals the mysterious Bass Player from Hand Job, as if reposing some remarkably stupid question. Anyone witho ... More >>

Something Else Twitter Does Not Improve: Bloomsday

Tomorrow, June 16, is Bloomsday -- the day of the year on which the events of James Joyce's Ulysses are supposed to take place -- and usually the occasion for readings, Irish breakfasts, and such like. You can also experience Bloomsday on Twitter, just as Joyce intended, or would have if he had atte ... More >>

'Araby'

Tomorrow, June 16, is Bloomsday -- the day of the year on which the events of James Joyce's Ulysses are supposed to take place -- and usually the occasion for readings, Irish breakfasts, and such like. You can also experience Bloomsday on Twitter, just as Joyce intended, or would have if he had atte ... More >>

What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism

Tomorrow, June 16, is Bloomsday -- the day of the year on which the events of James Joyce's Ulysses are supposed to take place -- and usually the occasion for readings, Irish breakfasts, and such like. You can also experience Bloomsday on Twitter, just as Joyce intended, or would have if he had atte ... More >>

Zadie Smith's "Two Paths for the Novel" and the Oncoming 2666 Deluge

Tomorrow, June 16, is Bloomsday -- the day of the year on which the events of James Joyce's Ulysses are supposed to take place -- and usually the occasion for readings, Irish breakfasts, and such like. You can also experience Bloomsday on Twitter, just as Joyce intended, or would have if he had atte ... More >>

Keith Gessen and Nathaniel Rich: The New-Gen Pen Men

Young New York lit-mag honchos write novels! (But should maybe stick to editing.)

Clip Job: Buck Mulligan is Dead

Young New York lit-mag honchos write novels! (But should maybe stick to editing.)

Spring Food Preview: Sailing and Scarfing

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Clip Job: The Irish Rule the Obies

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Horoscope

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Charles Mee's Queens Boulevard

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Horoscope

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Gothic Revival

Old father, old artificer: Tracing the roots of Alison Bechdel's exhilarating new "tragicomic," Fun Home

Absalom, O Absalom

'Not for inciting hatred, but for learning lessons from history'

Rejoyce

A playwright's modern-day downtown riff on Ulysses

Horoscope

A playwright's modern-day downtown riff on Ulysses

Oh Didn't He Ramble

Finally complete and unexpurgated, jazz's first composer and blowhard tells how it was done

The Honor Roll

Doormen in blue: The guest list at Pier 57

Happy Bloomsday!

Yes I said yes I will finish reading Ulysses, and celebrate a fictional date

The OK Corral

Leaving postmodernist and postminimalist strategies behind and breathing fresh air

Books

Leaving postmodernist and postminimalist strategies behind and breathing fresh air

The New Cosmopolis

Novelists Todd McEwen and Andrew Lewis Conn Discuss What’s Important in Fiction: Joyce, Beckett, and Chuck Woolery

Today's Star, Tomorrow's Trash

Headlong Spotlights Fame as Destroyer; Silver-Brown Deconstructs Audrey Hepburn

The Write Stuff

Gotham Writers' Guide Teaches the Fine Art of Fabulism

Points of View

Turmoil on Plazas, in Psyches, and in Your Lap

The Dream Factories

Mabou Mines's Joycean Schizophrenia; Ogawa's Twisted Love

Horoscope

Mabou Mines's Joycean Schizophrenia; Ogawa's Twisted Love

Mome Raths Outgrabe

Outsider Rockers Come Inside With Vorpal Swords in Hand and God in Their Din

To Eire Is Human

Outsider Rockers Come Inside With Vorpal Swords in Hand and God in Their Din

Listings

Outsider Rockers Come Inside With Vorpal Swords in Hand and God in Their Din

Theater

Outsider Rockers Come Inside With Vorpal Swords in Hand and God in Their Din

Dancing on Unsteady Ground

Ralph Lemon Grows a New World

NY Mirror

Ralph Lemon Grows a New World

Neil Hannon Loads Up HIS Library Card

Ralph Lemon Grows a New World

Neil Hannon Loads Up His Library Card

Ralph Lemon Grows a New World

Dual to the death

Ralph Lemon Grows a New World

Momentary Musicals

Ralph Lemon Grows a New World

Look Who’s Talking

Strolling Through the Greatest Mouth in the World

The Lavender List

Strolling Through the Greatest Mouth in the World