BLOOMCAST | HOLIDAY SPECIAL | THE DEAD

Our Bloomcasters reconvene on January 6th, “Joycension Day”, to
discuss The Dead : the final piece in Joyce’s Dubliners,
described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the greatest short stories
ever written". 


Leaning heavily as always on the wisdom of honorary Bloomcasters
Declan Kiberd and Colm Toibin, they cover orchestrated dinner
parties, ego death, the circularity of human life, the music of
words, and much more.


Carrying forth a Bloomcast tradition, they also play a festive
game, populating competing dinner parties with characters from
Dubliners and Ulysses.


Happy New Year (and Joycension Day)!


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Mentioned in the podcast:


‘The Dead’, by James Joyce:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dubliners/The_Dead


Prof. Declan Kiberd, ‘Dubliners: The First 100 Years,’ at the
James Joyce Center (2014):


https://youtu.be/A5qhK7LH6co?si=1zFc7EH7AOpuL1mq


Dubliners, with an introduction by Colm Toibin (Canongate):
https://canongate.co.uk/books/1488-dubliners/


London Review of Books. ‘Arruginated’, by Colm Toibin:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n17/colm-toibin/arruginated


John Huston’s 1987 film adaptation of ‘The Dead’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkos62UPwVk


“The Lass of Aughrim,” from the Huston film:


https://youtu.be/I1CP5Lz2iHE?si=yfxE-koZ3PVngWIc


Annie Baker’s Infinite Life:
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/infinite-life/ 


Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2944/2944-h/2944-h.htm#link2H_4_0010  


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Alice McCrum is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at
Princeton University. Before starting her graduate work, Alice
lived in Paris, where she taught at the Sorbonne, studied public
policy at Sciences Po-Paris, and directed cultural programming at
the American Library in Paris. 


Lex Paulson is Director of Executive Programs at the UM6P School
of Collective Intelligence (Morocco) and lectures in advocacy and
human rights at Sciences Po-Paris. Trained in classics and
community organizing, he served as mobilization strategist for
the campaigns of Barack Obama in 2008 and Emmanuel Macron in
2017. He served as legislative counsel in the 111th U.S. Congress
(2009-2011), organized on six U.S. presidential campaigns, and
has worked to advance democratic innovation at the European
Commission and in India, Tunisia, Egypt, Uganda, Senegal, Czech
Republic and Ukraine. He is author of Cicero and the People’s
Will: Philosophy and Power at the End of the Roman Republic, from
Cambridge University Press, and is co-editor of the Routledge
Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance.


Adam Biles is an English writer and translator based in Paris. He
is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. In 2022, he
conceived and presented Friends of Shakespeare and Company read
Ulysses—an epic, polyphonic celebration of James Joyce’s
masterwork. Feeding Time, his first novel, was published by
Galley Beggar Press in 2016. It was published by Editions Grasset
in France in 2018 to great critical acclaim. His second novel,
Beasts of England, was published in September 2023 by Galley
Beggar Press, and will be published in 2025 by Editions Grasset.
It was selected as a "2023 highlight" by The Guardian. A
collection of his conversations with writers, The Shakespeare and
Company Book of Interviews, was published by Canongate in October
2023








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