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April 29 is International Dance Day

CP Cavafy was born OTD in 1863 and died OTD in 1933. Hubert Butler translated The City “in memory of James Joyce and Trieste”

I will cherish this copy of Ellmann’s Joyce forever. It touches my heart esp this month. 💓 When I wrote my senior thesis on Ulysses at Harvard back in 1991-92, I could never imagine having the chance to work with a biographer as distinguished as Zach Leader. Harvard University Press

AI-assisted review of Samuel Beckett’s “The Last Crepe Tape”

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery was released OTD in 1997

May the fourth be with you

Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, and Literary Biography: a talk by Zachary Leader, Trinity Long Room Hub, 5.00pm, 15 May Trinity Long Room Hub #JamesJoyce James Joyce Gazette

Please join us on Friday, May 16th at 6.30pm for a conversation about "Ellmann's Joyce," the new biography of Richard Ellmann, by Zachary Leader. The event is free but booking is essential. We hope to see you there! Harvard University Press International Durnell Academic Books eventbrite.ie/e/ellmanns-joy…

“Olivier Schrauwen’s graphic novel Sunday is, like Ulysses, an attempt to capture the thoughts, experiences, memories, musings, and mania of one man over a single day. It is also, like Ulysses, a masterpiece.” nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

The Zurich James Joyce Foundation was established OTD 40 years ago

Today is World Fair Trade Day

Adventure writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard died OTD 100 years ago. He is best known for King Solomon's Mines and She, both of which remain in print and have been made into films several times. James Joyce was interested in his theory about the Odyssey, according to Richard Ellmann.

May 15 is National Straw Hat Day

May 16 is National Biographer’s Day. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell first met OTD in 1763. Harvard University Press

May 22 is the feast day of Rita of Cascia, patron saint of troubled marriages

Just Joyce This is my favorite image I've drawn of Joyce. From my graphic novel about Djuna Banes. He gave her a lot of advice. Should she have taken it?

Once upon a time you dressed so fine

Writer Millicent Dillon was born OTD 100 years ago. In 1981 subject Paul Bowles wrote to her, “I envy you if you’re able to sustain a uniform degree of interest throughout Ulysses. People are always saying they do. People also claim to be clairvoyant and to levitate.”

"Ulysses spoke to me as a veritable textbook of Modernist narrative devices, my beloved Homer restored in a Twentieth-century key. Today, perhaps I would value its gritty Irish detail above its technical razzle-dazzle" - John Barth, born OTD in 1930

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest OTD in 1953.