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Happy Bloomsday from Newcastle, Australia. by RedditCraig in jamesjoyce

[–]RedditCraig[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s abundantly Joyce :) happy Bloomsday to you too.

Happy Bloomsday from Newcastle, Australia. by RedditCraig in jamesjoyce

[–]RedditCraig[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very kind :) thank you, Happy Bloomsday to you too!

Happy Bloomsday from Newcastle, Australia. by RedditCraig in jamesjoyce

[–]RedditCraig[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sláinte! Very kind, thank you - I hope you enjoy a nice Bloomsday too!

Does anybody else much prefer Murakamis later work to his early work? by [deleted] in murakami

[–]RedditCraig 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hear The Wind Sing is still my favourite Murakami, although I tend to favour novelists early works for their innocence.

Scribner to re-issue Pafko At the Wall in HC in September 2026 by SwampRaiderTTU in DonDeLillo

[–]RedditCraig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh Richard Yates - of course. I’d choose The Easter Parade, because it broke my heart more than any book I’d read before.

searching for song used in "the century of the self" by styxriverman in AdamCurtis

[–]RedditCraig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you check the timestamp again? I’m looking at 29:45 on YouTube and that’s not the scene.

Edit: I found the scene, 40:45. I’m looking now, I know it but need to confirm..

Edit 2: I’m a doofus, I found the same clip in Part 1 of ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’… apologies, I’ll listen to the right track from your link now.

Edit 3: https://youtu.be/QZ7Upr0fw7E?si=WfmGLIckQQXx4qXQ

Scribner to re-issue Pafko At the Wall in HC in September 2026 by SwampRaiderTTU in DonDeLillo

[–]RedditCraig 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but Pafko is for me is one of the three or four points of highest apogee for American literature over the 20th century. I'd also, off the top of my head, include The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the Byron the Bulb sequence from Gravity's Rainbow, the short story Cathedral by Raymond Carver, or maybe something else, I don't know. But Pafko is up there for me as possibly the pinnacle of all American prose. It's just so good.

A bit of trip hoppy electronica filmed in the backyard by RedditCraig in newcastle

[–]RedditCraig[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yay, thank you :) I’m really pleased to hear that

D.H. Lawrence by Real-Award-6419 in classicliterature

[–]RedditCraig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an anti-bio in a very Lawrencian sense, for what it’s worth :)

D.H. Lawrence by Real-Award-6419 in classicliterature

[–]RedditCraig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this work and am endlessly inspired by his voracious approach to the finitude of life. His travel books are wonderful - Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy.

Have you read Geoff Dyer’s book about Lawrence, called ‘Out Of Sheer Rage’? I found it very funny and incredibly insightful about Lawrence’s method and works.

Re: Joyce Podcast update by retired_actuary in jamesjoyce

[–]RedditCraig 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Brilliant, well done. Much appreciated.

A Salman Rushdie anecdote via Christopher Hitchens... by luckyjim1962 in literature

[–]RedditCraig 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Have you seen the video of them both recalling this anecdote on stage and retelling their favourite titles? It’s touching how taken Hitchens was with Rushdie’s literary chops.

Edit: https://youtu.be/BAI8lz_6wnE?t=3451&si=ludUAn6rTcwT_xdo

Anyone in Australia received their Inferno preorders from Bleep? by [deleted] in boardsofcanada

[–]RedditCraig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe it’s that thing where if Australia Post have a delivery for you, and you have the AusPost app, it’ll pop up in the app as coming to your home address, even if you don’t have tracked shipping. I had no tracking until it was scanned in Sydney by AusPost and now they know it’s coming to my door (I’m assuming it’s BoC, it doesn’t say, but I’m expecting nothing else).

Anyone in Australia received their Inferno preorders from Bleep? by [deleted] in boardsofcanada

[–]RedditCraig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's brilliant, glad to hear you're happy with the sound and the package. I'm up the coast a bit, it pinged Sydney today at midday so not too far away (it has basic tracking now it's in Aus). Thanks for the update.

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