Bloomcast | Episode 8 | Eumaeus & Ithaca

Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's
Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson,
live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as
they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often
misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in
1922. 


In episode eight, Adam helps us understand the strained, clumsy
style of Eumaeus and investigates Bloom’s double-entry
accounting; Alice alerts us to the one-eyedness of narrative and
makes the case for the democratisation of art; while Lex praises
the mood of Eumeaus and the innovation of universal basic income.
In this episode, the fearless trio follow money, water and
manufactured meat tins, as well as Stephen and Bloom, who finally
spend a little time
together.        


Please share your thoughts on the book and anything you’d like to
hear us discuss: ulysses@shakespeareandcompany.com. 


A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice
McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. 


In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive
Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université
Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he
teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of
democracy.


Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company,
Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in
French as Défense de nourrir les vieux.


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