Reading Group Reminiscences
As it so often tends to do, the Wake made its omniscience humorously obvious to the participants of our latest reading group here in Austin. Prior to digging into the text, we had some discussion about...
View ArticleJoseph Gordon-Levitt Recites from Finnegans Wake
Page 439 from rcjohnso on Vimeo.A nicely done visual adaption/image collage with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (of Inception and 3rd Rock from the Sun fame) reciting a page from Shaun's lustful lecture to a...
View ArticleThe Boston Mess and Finnegans Wake
"My dear sir! In this wireless age any owl rooster can peck up bostoons. But whoewaxed he so anquished?" - Finnegans Wake, p. 489-490Tonight I've been digesting some information about the explosive...
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"A Typographic Confabulation with Finnegans Wake"
Via the essential creativity blog Brain Pickings, an old out-of-print obscure illustrated book of Finnegans Wake quotes, entitled Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Confabulation With Finnegans Wake. Even...
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What is Finnegans Wake? A Mysterious Black Cube
One of my favorite characteristics of the Wake is its self-reflection and self-commentary. While the book describes a set of characters who take on different shapes and forms throughout history (the...
View ArticleAdam Harvey performs from Shem chapter
Adam Harvey is an actor from New Mexico who holds the distinction of being capable of reciting long portions of Finnegans Wake at length from memory, with dramatic effect. I had the privilege of seeing...
View ArticleNew documentary "The Joycean Society" follows FW Reading Group
A brand new documentary, "The Joycean Society", about a Finnegans Wake reading group has been making the rounds at film festivals lately and getting some very positive reviews. Spanish artist Dora...
View ArticleReading a River Passage: ALP on page 153
Nothing enlivens a Finnegans Wake reading group like the appearance of ALP and her playful, flowing river prose. During our most recent meeting, while reading the fable of the Mookse and the Gripes we...
View ArticleSummaries and Guides to Finnegans Wake
At a recent Wake group meeting, a participant inquired about summary guides to the text. In particular, she wondered what books are out there that can help give one a sense of what a page or section is...
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"The Broken Window of My Soul": Joyce's Horrific Eye Troubles
"If you met on the binge a poor acheseyeld from Ailing..." - FW, p. 148 This hand-drawn pencil sketch of Leopold Bloom done by James Joyce himself has been familiar to me for a little while but I...
View ArticleThe Night Owl Wake Reading Group
I've been to three different Finnegans Wake reading groups before (including my own here in Austin) and each of them would focus in their efforts on just 2 pages or so, but I remembered meeting someone...
View ArticleNew Wake blog rich with insight
Another new Finnegans Wake blog has sprung up and it's a great one. Peter Chrisp, who has been a mainstay on the FWread e-mail list for years sharing his passion, knowledge, and insight on Joyce's...
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Book Review (PART 1 of 4): Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop
"Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?" - Finnegans Wake, p. 114Since first discovering John Bishop's monumental book about 4 years ago, I've been disappointed about how little discussion there is...
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Book Review (PART 2 of 4): Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop
"In fact, under the closed eyes of the inspectors the traits featuring the chiaroscuro coalesce, their contrarieties eliminated, in one stable somebody" - Finnegans Wake, pg. 107As one progresses along...
View ArticleHappy Birthday James Joyce
"A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights?" - Finnegans Wake, p. 627Today, February 2nd, marks the anniversary of James Joyce's...
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Book Review (Part 3 of 4): Joyce's Book of the Dark by John Bishop
"(Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, what curios of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede (since We and Thou had it out already) its world?" - Finnegans Wake, pg. 18After...
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Wake Art: Visual depictions of the "dreambookpage"
Clinton Cahill's depiction of the Yawn scene.It's often said of Finnegans Wake that it is a book for the ear, that it's meant to be read aloud and experienced through the dimension of sound. Yet there...
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On the 75th Anniversary of Finnegans Wake
"What's all this about Ulysses? Finnegans Wake. That's the important book."- Nora Joyce, shortly after her husband's deathFinnegans Wake turned 75 years old this past Sunday. It was originally...
View ArticleThe Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin, TX
What: The Finnegans Wake Reading Group of Austin meets twice every month to read aloud from, dissect, and discuss one of the richest, funniest, most baffling, bewildering and beautiful books ever...
View ArticleJoseph Campbell on How to Read Finnegans Wake
The approach described below could serve as a primer for how to study Finnegans Wake. In fact, Campbell very accurately describes the way we study the book in our Austin Finnegans Wake Reading Group.In...
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