JAMES JOYCE NEWESTLATTER THE NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE FOUNDATION No. 123 EDITOR: MORRIS BEJA NOVEMBER 2016

President GEERT LERNOUT Antwerp, Belgium Vice President CLAIRE CULLETON MY BELOVED Kent, Ohio, U.S.A.

Honorary Trustees MORRIS BEJA SUBJECTS, A NEW ERA Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. FRITZ SENN Zürich, Switzerland THOMAS STALEY Austin, Texas, U.S.A. IS ABOUT TO DAWN

Board of Trustees After twenty-seven years, the International James Joyce SCARLETT BARON London, England Foundation is leaving its headquarters at Ohio State University. VALERIE BÉNÉJAM Nantes, France As a matter of fact, it’s returning to its original home, the WILLIAM BROCKMAN State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. University of Tulsa, which it left—temporarily it turns out—in TIM CONLEY St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada 1989. With that change comes another: I’ve been Executive RONAN CROWLEY Passau, Germany Secretary of the Foundation for almost that long (since 1990), CLAIRE CULLETON Kent, Ohio, U.S.A. but I’ll be turning over that position to Sean Latham, who is also CATHERINE FLYNN Berkeley, California, U.S.A. at Tulsa. FINN FORDHAM Oxford, England The transition will, I’m confident, be a smooth one. For the ELLEN CAROL JONES Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. time being, the usual business of the Foundation will continue to TERENCE KILLEEN Dublin, Ireland be handled at Ohio State, but by the end of the academic year SEBASTIAN D. G. KNOWLES (ex officio) the memberships, subscriptions, and other operations of the Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. SEAN LATHAM (ex officio) Foundation will all be done out of Tulsa. Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. JAMES LEBLANC Of course Tulsa is also the home of the James Joyce Quarterly, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A. GEERT LERNOUT (ex officio) with Sean as its Editor. But the finances and all other functions Antwerp, Belgium JOHN MCCOURT of the JJQ and the IJJF will be entirely separate. Trieste, Italy MARGOT NORRIS I’ll also no longer edit the Newestlatter after this issue; we’re not Irvine, California, U.S.A. PAUL SAINT-AMOUR yet sure about what format it may have, or what may replace it. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. SAM SLOTE The International James Joyce Foundation is grateful to Sean, Dublin, Ireland DAVID SPURR to all the staff at the University of Tulsa, and to the University Geneva, Switzerland WIM VAN MIERLO itself for being so willing to take on the new responsibilities. And Loughborough, England JOLANTA WAWRZYCKA we’re grateful to the Ohio State University—and all the Chairs of Radford, Virginia, U.S.A. the English Department who have supported the Foundation General Legal Council ROBERT SPOO through the years, and above all to all the Graduate Associates Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson L.L.P. who have taken up their duties with such skill and good will. Associate Legal Counsel LINDA SCALES I’ve enjoyed my role immensely: I am sure—and very much Dublin, Ireland Executive Secretary hope—that Sean will as well. SEAN LATHAM Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. With gratitude,

Murray Beja

. . . and a very good time it was . . . .

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2017 NORTH AMERICAN JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM: TORONTO

2017 NORTH AMERICAN JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM VICTORIA COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO JUNE 21-25, 2017

James Joyce grew up in the shadow of a massive diaspora brought about by the devastating potato famine of the 1840’s, when Ireland lost fully a third of its population to death and forced migration. By the end of the nineteenth century, 40% of Irish-born people were living elsewhere. The city of Toronto is also marked by that history: relatively small at the time, with a population of only 30,000, at the height of the famine it became a destination for nearly twice that number of Irish men, women, and children. Ireland Park, on the quayside at the foot of Bathurst St., created in 2007 as a famine memorial with four sculptures intended by Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie to complement his Famine figures in Dublin, provides an artistic link between Dublin and Toronto, as if sister cities. Now, in the twenty-first century, Toronto has become uniquely multicultural: slightly more than half its citizens were born in another country, drawn from every part of the world. Joyce, who lived and wrote in Dublin, Trieste, Zurich, Paris, and (briefly) London, knew of diaspora personally, and as a witness. His fiction is imbued with yearnings to return to home, or trepidation at leaving it, as well as a keen interest in how borders or the lack of them create violent confrontation, whether it be an altercation in a local pub, an estrangement in a marriage, or the launching of a World War. In so- called “globalization,” money itself is also diasporic: transnational corporations and free flowing capital, trade agreements and mobile labor forces, the unequal distribution of wealth and the continuing increase of precarious employment.

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2017 NORTH AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM, CON’T This invites us to consider the various movements linked to the diasporic: not only transnational capital, but also transgenerational trauma and even perhaps the transmigration of souls. Joyce shows us barriers are everywhere: in ourselves, in our relations to others, between our hope and our reality, driving our desire and threatening our peace of mind. For Joyce, the political is not just the personal, it is a part of the unconscious. History, in Stephen Dedalus’s famous metaphor, “is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” In its modest way, we propose Diasporic Joyce as a further contribution to a geopolitical, transnational, interpersonal “wake-up call.”

CALL FOR PAPERS: In the spirit of past conferences and symposia, we look forward to receiving proposals on a diverse range of Joyce-related topics. We particularly welcome papers that reflect on the implications of diaspora. For example: *Home, Homeward, Homely, Homeless *Another Removal: Dislocation, Relocation, Allocation *Around the World in Hasty Days: London, Trieste, Zurich, Paris *Dyoublong?: Leave-taking and Arrival *World War I: Refugees, Internment Camps, and Safe Passage *I Dreamt That I Dwelt: Distant Lands *Raising the Wind: Circulation, Circumlocution, Circumcision *A Lust in Wander Land: Travelling, Mapping, Navigating, Encountering *Missionary Style: Spreading the Word Abroad with Irish Jesuits *Scattering, Fragmentation, Dispersal *Return, Reception *Same old Ding Dong Always: Integration, Disintegration, Reintegration *Distant Music: Hybridity, Borderlands, Translation *Jim and Nora’s Excellent Adventure: Marriage on the Lam *Telmetale of Stem or Stone: Stories From at Home and Abroad *Come, Thou Lost One: Memory, Trauma, Mourning *What Happens in Paris, Stays in Paris: Joyce and Beckett as Expatriates *Potato I have: Joyce and the Great Famine *The Irishman’s House Is His Coffin: Place, Space, Local, Global *I Paid My Way: Globalize, Colonize, Capitalize, Monetize *Bullock Befriending Bard: Import, Export, Deport *Your Head it Simply Swurls: Movement of People, Movement of Ideas *Beyond the Pale: Joyce and the Countryside *He Touched Me Father Where: Crossing Boundaries—national, political, psychological, sexual, physiological, social, economic, linguistic.

Please submit proposals for individual papers or panels by January 15, 2017, to: Garry Leonard [email protected] and Jennifer Levine [email protected]

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REPORT ON THE XXV INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM

For my second International James Joyce Symposium, at the University of London, I was fortunate enough to deliver my paper during the first panel session of the first day, allowing me to cast off the typical conference albatross of continual paper tinkering throughout the week. As a result, I was able to attend as many panel and plenary sessions as possible, giving me the opportunity to rub elbows with the droves of Joyceans packed tightly into the too-small rooms of the University’s Senate House. At times, this rubbing of elbows was literal, as there was scarcely even standing room available during some panels. These panels included “Joyce, Militarism, and 1916”: Luke Gibbons’s argument about the Easter Rising being a modernist (and more Joycean) event linked to mass culture, internationalism, and technology made an interesting counterpart to Vincent Cheng’s discussion of the commemorative martyrology of Robert Emmet, Christ, and Patrick Pearse as informing Joyce’s work. “Adultery in Joyce,” Valerie Bénéjam’s thoughtful consideration of adultery as a cognitive and linguistic problem in Exiles was the high point in a panel that also featured Austin Briggs’s enigmatic personal anecdote about his wife and a movie theater. And “Mugwump Wake,” Finn Fordham’s paper on the politics of style in Joyce’s development, jived with Sam Slote’s emphasis on the Wakean politics of the “corructive.” Of course, the sheer scale of the Symposium permits attendees to hear only a fraction of what is presented. To mitigate such scalar impediments without the magical luxury of, say, a time-turner à la the wizarding world of Harry Potter, Joyceans took to social media to provide comprehensive coverage. Who among us is not indebted to the exhaustive live-tweeting team of James Fraser (who was awarded the Symposium’s honorific of “most prolific twitterer”), Daniel Curran, Helen Saunders, Paul Fagan, Katherine Ebury, Tamara Radak (“most charismatic twitterer”), Lloyd Houston, Sam Slote, and Andrew Ferguson, among others? These Twitter heroes battled uneven Wifi signals and thumb fatigue to deliver up-to-the-minute reports of the Symposium’s goings-on, all in 140-character bursts no less. Given the Symposium’s general theme of Anniversary, it was not surprising to hear many papers that were thematically linked to various historical events, including, but not limited to the centenary of the Easter Rising, the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, the founding of Dadaism, and, of course, the centennial anniversary of the publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Perhaps most notable among the historically situated papers was Anne Fogarty’s exemplary plenary address, “‘Our national epic has yet to be written’: Joyce and the Irish Revival.” By exploring Joyce’s self-figuration as the ideal interlocutor of the Irish Literary Revival as being intertwined with Shakespeare’s prominence in the Irish context of 1916, Fogarty mapped out the complex lines that the “Scylla and Charybdis” episode draws around presences and absences of major writers, thinkers, and figures (most importantly, J.M. Synge) in Irish literary history. Other standout papers included Tim Conley’s discussion of silence in “Penelope,” Michael Groden’s meta-genetic approach to writing about genetic criticism, and Onno Kosters’s take on “Eumaeus” as a kind of “writer’s lab” in which good writing goes wrong. Conley’s exploration of “Penelope’s” limited auditory mimesis in relation to its function as an index of hypothetical futures emerged initially from a clunky translation of Homer, but developed to position Joyce as responding not only to gendered social codes, but also new media ecologies such as the silent film, the cinema Joyce would have known. Groden offered an illuminating sort of memoir of his life with genetic criticism, finding echoes of Joyce in returning to his own handwritten corrections and being unable to read them. In tracing the evolution of clichéd language, Kosters pointed to the failures of language and style as perpetuating a danger in the neatness of identifications that such shared language affords.

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REPORT ON THE SYMPOSIUM, CON’T

The Bloomsday plenary address featured Iain Sinclair’s “personal and allusive peregrination through Joyce’s Dublin and our London,” to borrow Lloyd Houston’s twitter-phrasing. Paris was also an important metropolitan third in Sinclair’s triangulation of city and literary walking. However, the central mystery of Sinclair’s talk, perhaps even of the Symposium in general, was why a YouTube playlist of gruffly-bearded men known as The Dubliners fiddled, plucked, and rambled in soundless juxtaposition to Sinclair’s labyrinthine talk. Although many of the speakers I have discussed belong to the established canon of Joycean criticism, the Symposium achieves much of its intellectual vigor from the work done by its rising scholars. Scholars such as Julie McCormick Weng, Andrew Ferguson, Sophie Corser, Ruben Borg, Philip Keel Geheber, Thomas Gurke, Victoria Leveque, Yvonne Lai, and Helen Saunders, among others, deserve critical praise for their work. With Anniversary Joyce in the books, Joyceans will most certainly look forward to 2022 in anticipation of the centennial of the publication of Ulysses. Where will Joycean scholarship be by then? What new developments will be made? We’ll surely begin to find out where we are headed next year in Toronto. Ethan King Boston University

PRUDENT MEMBERS

The new members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation are, for North America, Margot Norris, Paul Saint-Amour, and Catherine Flynn. For elsewhere, the new members are Valerie Bénéjam and Sam Slote. Congratulations to all of them. And of course thanks are due to the members who have been replaced: John Gordon, Vicki Mahaffey, Christine O’Neill, Dirk Van Hulle, Aida Yared, and the late Rosa Maria Bolletieri Bosinelli.

IN MEMORIAM

CLIVE HART (1931-2016)

Clive Hart, one of the finest and most influential of Joyceans, died August 16, having suffered a stroke the day before. He had retired from the University of Essex in 1998. His Structure and Motif in Finnegans Wake (1962) was pioneering yet remains enormously useful and illuminating, as does his A Concordance to Finnegans Wake (1963), which—with its “Syllabifications” and “Overtones”—is so much more than its title would suggest. With Fritz Senn he long edited A Wake Newslitter; together they also edited A Wake Digest (1968). Hart also published widely about Joyce’s other works, as in A Topographical Guide to James Joyce’s Ulysses (1975), with Leo Knuth, and John Huston and the Making of “The Dead” (1988). Among his edited volumes were Twelve and a Tilly: Essays on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Finnegans Wake (with Jack P. Dalton); James Joyce’s Dubliners: Critical Essays (1969); Arthur Power’s Conversations with James Joyce (1974); and Assessing the James Joyce Newestlatter November 2016 6

IN MEMORIAM, CON’T

1984 Ulysses (1986, with C. George Sandulescu). He also published Language and Structure in Beckett’s Plays (1986). Reflecting his early interests in both literature and science, even as he published his early works on the Wake he came out with a number of important works on the history of flight, including (but far from limited to) Kites: An Historical Survey (1967) and Images of Flight (1968). Clive was one of the most valuable and wittiest participants in Joyce workshops, conferences, and Symposia. He was a truly memorable Rev. John Conmee in the reenactment of “Wandering Rocks” at the 1982 centennial Symposium in Dublin. His stepson includes a moving “Tribute to Clive Hart” in his blog, https://humanview.org.

PORTALS OF DISCOVERY: OTHER CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

JOYCE AT 135: THE JAMES JOYCE ITALIAN FOUNDATION will sponsor a conference, “Joyce’s Fiction and the Rise of the Novel,” Feb. 1-3, 2017, hosted by the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the Università Roma Tre, to celebrate Joyce’s 135th birthday. See https://thejamesjoyceitalianfoundation.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/cfp-the-x-james-joyce- italian-foundation-conference-in-rome-1-2-3-february-2017/. THE INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, invites papers for a panel on “Empirical Joyce” for its conference, April 22-24, 2017. Write by Dec. 20 to Katarzyna Bazarnik ([email protected]) and/or Dirk Vanderbeke (vanderbeke@t‐online.de). For general information write to [email protected]. THE JAMES JOYCE CENTRE, Dublin, continues its series of lectures and events. Those having taken place or scheduled include Oona Frawley, “The Terrible Beauty of Memory: Ireland’s Decade of Commemorations” (Sept. 5); Felix Larkin, “Harped History: Joyce, 1916 and Revisionism” (Oct. 3); and Catriona Crowe, on “Social Conditions in James Joyce’s Dublin” (Nov. 7). MLA IN PHILADELPHIA: The annual session arranged by the IJJF will be “Joyce: The World in a Word,” Thursday, January 5, 5:15–6:30 p.m., in 203B, Pennsylvania Convention Center. Presiding and responding will be Natasha Chenier, U. of British Columbia. The papers will be: “A Triestine in Dublin: Almidano Artifoni,” Ira Nadel (U. of British Columbia). “Reading Joyce with Empson: On Compound Word Creation and Reiteration in Finnegans Wake,” Elizabeth M. Bonapfel (Freie U.). “A Mother like ‘Nother’: Media Agency and Errors of Minimal Difference in Ulysses,” Jeremy Lakoff (U. at Buffalo).

EVERY WORD IS SO DEEP, LEOPOLD: SOME PUBLICATIONS

Annabel Abbs, The Joyce Girl. Impress Books, 2016. €6.29 / £8.99 / $9.73.A novel about Lucia. Eileen Battersby, “I never uttered Mrkgnao in any of my nine lives.” Irish Times (June 16, 2016). “Leopold Bloom’s cat” explains “where James Joyce got it wrong.” Joseph M. Hassett, The Ulysses Trials: Beauty and Truth Meet the Law. Lilliput P., 2016. €25.00 / £19.99 / $45.00.

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SOME PUBLICATIONS, CONT’D Hypermedia Joyce Studies (August 2016). The twentieth anniversary issue features some of the best articles of those twenty years, including essays by Darren Tofts, Finn Fordham, Mary Libertin, Bahman Zarrinjooee, Fritz Senn, Jesse Chase, Steven Bond, Gregory O. Smith, Sam Slote, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Silvia Annavini, Steven F. Walker, Louis Armand, Valerie Bénéjam—and David Vichnar, who now passes on the editorship to Zachariah Mullen. Vivian Igoe, The Real People of Joyce’s Ulysses. University College Dublin P., 2016. €41.00 / £32.00. Onno Kosters, Tim Conley, and Peter de Voogd, a long the krommerun: Selected papers from the Utrecht James Joyce Symposium. Rodopi, 2016. With contributions by David Pascoe, David Spurr, Catherine Flynn, So Onose, Austin Briggs, Stephanie Boland, Boriana Alexandrova, Maria Kager, Sam Slote, Philip Keel Geheber, Katherine O’Callaghan, Tim Conley, Robbert-Jan Henkes, and Dirk Van Hulle. £59.00 / $97.00. Tasha Lewis, Illustrating Joyce’s Ulysses: In Eight Weeks. BookBaby, 2016. $155.00. (see image at right) Louis Menand, “Why We Are No Longer Shocked By ‘Ulysses,”’ The New Yorker (June 16, 2016). Jack Morgan, Joyce’s City: History, Politics, and Life in Dubliners. U. of Missouri P., 2015. $60.00. Daniel Mulhall, “A Portrait of the Artist and His Young Country: A Joycean Centenary.” London Magazine (Sept. 30, 2016). By the Irish ambassador in London. Peter Murtagh, “North inner city marks Joyce’s Monto.”Irish Times (June 17, 2016). ‘“Today is Bloomsday, he [local historian Terry Fagan] noted wryly, ‘and no one comes down here. The Monto is the biggest chapter in Ulysses and still no on comes here. Maybe Enda Kenny will get the funds for a heritage centre.’” Michael O’Loughlin, “How I changed my view of Bloomsday.” Irish Times (June 16, 2016). “Bloomsday, unlike most national festivals, from Bastille Day to Thanksgiving, does not commemorate death, war, conquest and destruction, but rather the opposite—it is a celebration of creativity and the imagination.” Col Brendan O’Shea, “Tom Kettle: In memory, 100 years after Death at the Somme.” Irish Times (Sept. 9, 2016). Stanley Price, James Joyce and Italo Svevo: The Story of a Friendship. Somerville Press, 2016. €18.00 / £14.00 / $19.50. Nilotpal Roy, Pastiche of Angst: The Polylithic Analexts of a Schizophrenic. West Bengal, India: Joyce and Company Publishing Society, 2016. Described by the publisher as a novel and “our debut title” and “a tribute to James Joyce, on behalf of us.” Jessica Stirling, Whatever Happened to Molly Bloom?: A Historical Murder Mystery Set in Dublin. Seven House, 2015. Molly Bloom is found murdered, and two suspects are Leopold Bloom and Blazes Boylan. Donald Philip Verene, James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake. Northwestern U.P., 2016. $99.95 / $34.95 paper. James Joyce Newestlatter November 2016 8

SOME PUBLICATIONS, CONT’D

AND ANNOUNCED . . . . Chrissie Van Mierlo, James Joyce and Catholicism: The Apostate’s Wake. Bloomsbury, due Jan. 2017. James Robinson, Joyce’s Dante: Exile, Memory, and Community. Cambridge U.P. $99.99 / £58.49. Keith Williams, James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film. Edinburgh U.P., due May 2017.

THEATRICALS

“HIMSELF AND NORA,” billed as “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” is a new musical by Jonathan Brielle, directed by Michael Bush, that opened in June at the Minetta Lane Theater, New York, and closed in August, with Matt Bogart as James Joyce and Whitney Bashor as Nora. MOLLY BLOOM with Patrizia Pfeifer and directed by Rudolf Ladurner was performed at the Theater in Der Altstadt, Meran, South Tyrol, in March. PAUL O’HANRAHAN: Marie-Chantal Douine posted on Facebook, “Actor Paul O’Hanrahan performed a re-enactment of the entire Telemachus chapter of ‘Ulysses’ . . . in its original setting. Playing all the roles, he started on the roof of the tower, shaved, went down for breakfast, walked to the Forty Foot nearby, undressed and dived in, declaiming all the while. Remarkable.” “THE DEAD, 1904”: “The Irish Repertory Theater [New York] is planning an immersive production of . . . ‘The Dead’ at a historic house in which some theatergoers will participate in the holiday meal at the heart of the tale. The new adaptation is being written by Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet who is the poetry editor of the New Yorker, and his wife, the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz. The actress Kate Burton, a three-time Tony nominee, has agreed to star. The production, which is being called ‘The Dead, 1904,’ will be staged at an Upper East Side townhouse owned by the American Irish Historical Society, and will accommodate just 42 people per night, at $300 each for the play, dinner and drinks. . . . The production is scheduled to run from Nov. 19 to Jan. 7” (New York Times, Sept. 29, 2016).”

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THAT OTHER WORLD: JOYCE AND THE WEB AND THE CLOUD

“THE JOYCE WORD DICTIONARY,” online and open access, “aims to provide a space in which readers, scholars, and lexicographers around the world can explore Joyce’s elaborate contribution to literature and to language.” See www.joycewords.com or write to [email protected].

“FIRST WE FEEL THEN WE FALL” is an online film adaptation by Katarzyna Bazarnik and Jakub Wróblewski of Finnegans Wake, “a creative funferall” launched at the London Symposium. See http://www.firstwefeelthenwefall.com/. (Not yet available on mobile devices.)

AINT NO NICKEL DIME BUMSHOW: AUCTIONS

A FIRST EDITION OF ULYSSES was sold at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers in July for €9,500 after less than a minute of bidding. LUCIA JOYCE’S AUTOGRAPH: “A first edition of Deirdre Bair’s Samuel Beckett: A Biography, published in 1978 and signed by James Joyce’s daughter Lucia, is one of the highlights of this year’s Dublin Book Fair. Joyce signed the reproduction of her drawing of her father . . .” (Irish Times, Sept. 23, 2016).

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AT RANDOM IN THE JOYOUS INDUSTRY: THIS PHENOMENON AND THE OTHER PHENOMENON

THE JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY has launched its new website. See https://jjq.utulsa.edu. THE IRISH SHIP THE LÉ JAMES JOYCE, together with the LÉ Samuel Beckett, has been cooperating with the Italian Navy in humanitarian operations seeking for and rescuing migrants off north Africa. (Once again “James Joyce” comes to the aid of refugees.) By the way, there is now also an LÉ William Butler Yeats. NORA WHO? The Lincoln’s Inn pub, off Nassau Street in Dublin, has new owners—and a sign on the door, “This was the original front door of Finn’s Hotel – Nora Barnacle worked here in June 1904.” “WRITER WHOSE WIFE SAID HE’S A ‘GENIUS, BUT WHAT A DIRTY MIND HE HAS’” was the first clue (1 Across) in the New York Times crossword puzzle for Sept. 22. NUTSHELL: The fetus narrator in Ian McEwan’s novel Nutshell, about his mother: “And she likes podcast lectures, and self-improving audio books—Know Your Wine, in fifteen parts, biographies of seventeenth-century playwrights, and various world classics, James Joyce’s Ulysses sends her to sleep, even as it thrills me.” THE RUIN OF ALL SPACE: The Dublin City Council “has granted planning permission to Monteco Holdings . . . to demolish and redevelop the Ormond Hotel in the city centre. The approval has come despite stiff opposition from the Save Joycean Dublin Committee and local residents” (Irish Examiner, Sept. 13, 2016). IN BETTER NEWS, THE MARTELLO TOWER has attracted a record number of visitors. Now under volunteer management and featuring free admission, the tower expects 40,000 visitors this year. THE 2016 TRUMAN CAPOTE AWARD FOR LITERARY CRITICISM, worth $30,000, has been given to Kevin Birmingham for The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Pointing out, in his acceptance speech Oct. 19, that the award was created in memory of Newton Arvin, who was a victim of injustice when suspended by Smith College from teaching in the 1960s because of his being outed as gay, Birmingham said that he wanted to address another injustice: “I am, so far as I can tell, the first adjunct faculty member to receive this award,” although in the U.S. “tenured faculty represent only 17% of university instructors.” THE GREAT COURSES series of 36 lectures on “The Irish Identity” by Marc C. Conner includes six on Joyce. ONLY ONE OF THEM EVER RECEIVED THE NOBEL PRIZE: In Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run (2016) he recounts how early in his career Mike Appel heard him, and “his face lit up and in thirty seconds he compared me to Dylan, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Bozo the Clown” (167). HE KEPT ON THE FRINGE OF HIS LINE: Chicago has a Gaelic Football team, the James Joyce GFC (“Chicago’s Northside All American Born Men’s Team”). WHAT SYLLABUS OF INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS WAS SIMULTANEOUSLY POSSIBLE?: A visit to the Zürich James Joyce Foundation has led to a query about whether there’s a Ulysses reading group in the Boston area—or interest in starting one. Contact [email protected]. THAT WAS YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO LITERATURE: Yonina Hoffman, the Graduate Associate for International James Joyce Foundation, is taking on the formidable task of scanning all the issues of the Newestlatter (originally the Newsletter) since the first one almost fifty years ago. All the issues will then be made available in the Foundation’s website. (Nothing smutty in it.)

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The first page of the first issue of the Newsletter, edited by Bernard Benstock.

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The first page of Berni’s fifth issue.

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ONE GREAT GOAL: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE IJJF SCHOLARSHIP FUND

As the International James Joyce Foundation transfers its operations to the University of Tulsa, its activities remain as important as ever in the world of Joyce studies. No doubt the most visible and in some ways most important of its functions is the sponsorship of the International James Joyce Symposia. The significance of the Symposia remains enormous to all of us, but perhaps above all for younger Joyceans who often have to struggle to be able to come up with the funds to attend. The scholarships awarded by the Foundation have been important—even essential—to many graduate students for many years, and we fully intend to continue our efforts. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. And keep in mind that all contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible in the United States. That includes bequests, in the form of cash, stocks, bonds, or mutual funds. Thanks to the following for their contributions since the last Newestlatter: Derek Attridge, Morris Beja, Vincent Cheng, Tim Conley, Luca Crispi, Claire Culleton, Neil Davison, Daniel Ferrer, Anne Fogarty, Ellen Carol Jones, Terence Killeen, Sebastian Knowles, Garry Leonard, Timothy P. Martin, Jesse Meyers, Margot Norris, Patrick Reilly, Thomas Gwynn Roberts, Liliane Rodriguez, Wim Van Mierlo, Dirk Vanderbeke, Jolanta Wawrzycka, Kumiko Yamada, and Aida Yared.

VERY GRATEFULLY, WITH GRATEFUL APPRECIATION, WITH SINCERE APPRECIATIVE GRATITUDE FOR ITEMS, TO: Katarzyna Bazarnik, Drew Beja, Bernard Benstock, Austin Briggs, Marie-Chantal Douine, Anne Fogarty, Mike Groden, Ellen Carol Jones, Ethan King, Sebastian Knowles, Jim LeBlanc, Robert Le Hale, Garry Leonard, Geert Lernout, Tom Mahoney, Ann Marlowe, Jim Phelan, Wolfgang Wicht, Jakub Wróblewski.

LAYOUT AND DESIGN: Yonina Hoffman.

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