It's only five days til Bloomsday -- June 16 -- when all of the action of Joyce's Ulysses took place in 1904. People all over the world, not just in Dublin, re-enact part of the story, dress up as the characters, quote and disclaim, and visit, if they can, some of the famous sites of the famous story. In NYC, Symphony Space runs a marathon 13-hour reading which also has a five-hour broadcast on WNYC. This year Dublin actress Eilin O'Dea joins the readers (but not as Molly). Others equally famous will read.
Isaiah Sheffer calls the protagonist Leopold Bloom "the most famous Jewish character in literature." Never thought of Bloom that way, but maybe. He's certainly in the running.
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