Bloomcast │Episode 6 │Nausicaa and Oxen of the Sun

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 six, they discuss the obscenity trial that got Ulysses
banned from the US for more than a decade, whether Joyce is a
genius or a show-off (spoiler alert: he's both), animal
consciousness (again!), and—ahem!—fun things you can do with your
hands . . .


 


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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