WAKE loves guests! This Bloomsday week, Toby and TJ welcome the incomparable Dr. Natalie Hoskins, professor of communication, to give us her professional perspective on pleasure reading, broadcasting thoughts, and desperately looking for meaning in the subtext. Also, Natalie joins us to read from 1.4 of the Wake, where Festy King defends himself, HCE hides in a coffin, and Kate Strong seeks more tips. Will we make sense of it? Spoiler: nope, but we make up for it with plenty of ambient construction noise!
This week's readers: Natalie Hoskins, Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 90 pages complete, 538 pages to go; 14.33% read.
Contextual Notes
Bloomsday:
On the 120th Bloomsday in New York: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/arts/bloomsday-women.html
In Dublin: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/06/16/in-pictures-bloomsday-2024/
And in my home town of Toronto: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/down-a-guinness-on-the-danforth-ogle-a-statue-at-the-rom-or-simply-gaze/article_4fd57b86-28d3-11ef-bcfd-97d4a4c9ab2c.html
John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3656803.html
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