Bernadette Lowry has produced a fascinating new book on James Joyce’s final novel "Finnegans Wake." Her findings are, quite simply, compelling. Joyce candidly declares in the final lines of "Finnegans ...

A Los Angeles book club has finally finished James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" 28 years after starting the iconic novel. The Finnegan's Wake reading club, which was founded by Gerry Fialka in 1995, made ...

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce’s final novel, is a notoriously challenging read. In the late Eighties, New Yorkers would organize “marathon group reads” of the book that would start at noon on New Year’s ...

The moment a California book club had been working toward for 28 years arrived on a Zoom call last month. About 20 people who called in from various places across the world took turns reading the ...

FINNEGANS CHROMOSOMES: Think of it as genetic research of a literary sort. The international group of scholars producing The Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo is tracing the development of James ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2024 – Statistical analysis of classic literature has shown that the way punctuation breaks up text obeys certain universal mathematical relationships. James Joyce’s tome ...

They’d worked for 28 years to get to this moment. I didn’t want to screw it up. Earlier this week, I interviewed Gerry Fialka about the Venice-Wake Book Group, which he founded in 1995 and has led for ...

Once a month for the past 28 years, filmmaker Gerry Fialka has convened a book group to read James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake,” a book that is famously difficult to understand. This Tuesday, Oct. 3, ...

UB’s Techne Institute for Art and Emerging Technologies is looking for faculty, staff, students and other Western New Yorkers to take part in a free, one-of-a-kind event on Nov. 1 that will explore ...

"Finnegans Wake," James Joyce's phantasmagorical 1939 novel, is considered the hardest book to read in Western canon. Joyce uses made-up languages, and words with more than 100 letters. Joyce said he ...