CJ Sansom: a life in writing theguardian.com/culture/2010/n…

OTD in 2006: 'Finnegan' Book Group Full of Joyce
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Joyce in Songs, an album of James Joyce’s poetry set to music and performed by Polish baritone Maciej Bartczak, was released OTD in 2023.

A Samuel Beckett classic is coming to Unity Theatre this May theguideliverpool.com/a-samuel-becke…

OTD in 2010: Future uncertain for Berkeley's Serendipity Books berkeleyside.org/2010/04/29/fut…

Bookseller Andreas Brown was born OTD in 1933. He bought the Gotham Book Mart, home to James Joyce Society (New York), from founder Frances Steloff in 1967 and ran it for 40 years. He’s pictured holding photos of Arthur Miller and James Joyce.

The BBC broadcast a recording by Virginia Woolf OTD in 1937 as part of a series called Words Fail Me. It is said to be the only surviving recording of Woolf.
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New York Times theatre critic Mel Gussow died OTD in 2005. His first Broadway play review was of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1962. He described Samuel Beckett as the pre-eminent playwright and Waiting for Godot as the greatest play of our time.

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American political philosopher and critic Russell Kirk died OTD in 1994. His 1953 book The Conservative Mind influenced the US conservative movement. He also wrote Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered and Eliot and His Age: TS Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century.

Poet Alejandra Pizarnik was born OTD in 1936.

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April 29 is International Dance Day

James Joyce and the English Players Incident

irishcatholic.com/jesuits-hand-b… 'The superior, the very reverend John Conmee S.J. reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps' Dr Flicka Small with Cork Bloomsday23 Just Joyce John McCourt @jamesjjoycecentr Aidan Collins Patrick Hawe

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Irish artist Mainie Jellett was born OTD in 1897
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Flannery O’Connor biopic Wildcat artfully delivers

O’Connor asks her parish priest whether he has ever read James Joyce. Relating to Joyce, but deeply committed to the faith he has rejected, she emotes, “My writing’s scandalous! Can it still serve God?”
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A production of Waiting for Godot directed by Theodoros Terzopoulos will be staged at Shanghai Theater Academy on May 1 and 2.

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