According to Richard Ellmann’s biography of modernist master (and Melville House author) James Joyce, Ulysses takes place on June 16th to honor Joyce’s wife, Nora. It was the day they met. Considering the hodgepodge… Read more »

For those of you hapless enough to have missed The Morgan Library’s exhibition From Gatsby to Garb that ended this weekend, it was a doozy. The exhibition pulled a selection of… Read more »

As 2013 is the 100th anniversary of Swann’s Way, there’s a little Proust mania in the air. The Morgan Library is hosting an exhibit with Proust’s early drafts, Anne Carson… Read more »