Tag Archive for ‘Censorship’
Bloomsday (2011)
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan. . .” With those words, James Joyce (February 2, 1882-January 13, 1941) opened Ulysses, chosen in 1999 as the greatest novel of the 20th century by the Modern Library. The novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on their wanderings through Dublin on a single day –June 16 1904. That makes [...]
Happy Birthday, Harper Lee
Born April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama –Nelle Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. If you only publish one book, may as well make it a good one. For Harper Lee it was To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), the story of Scout Finch, a girl growing up in a small Southern town. Scout [...]
“Sicko Ants on a Crucifix”
Censorship is riding high. It is once again as American as apple pie, assassinations and anti-immigrant vitriol.
The N-word is for “Nonsense”
A work that aspires, however, humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. The great novelist Joseph Conrad wrote those words in a literary manifesto called “A Preface to the Nigger of the ‘Narcissus.’ ” Oops, I mean “Slave of the Narcissus.” Or should it be “The Children of the [...]
Debs Day? Socialist, Convict, Presidential Candidate
We like to celebrate heroes of conscience, like Thoreau, Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Unless they might be a “Socialist troublemaker” –like Eugene V. Debs, born this date in 1855. The epithet “Socialist” seems to be one of the worst things a politician can be called these days. In the early 20th century, Eugene [...]
Happy Bloomsday 2011!
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan. . .” With those words, James Joyce (February 2, 1882-January 13, 1941) opened Ulysses, chosen in 1999 as the greatest novel of the 20th century by the Modern Library. The novel follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus on their wanderings through Dublin on a single day –June 16 1904. That makes [...]
