Ulysses

by James Joyce

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1. Jessica FanzoInterview

   This is really a tough one. I want to say Ulysses by James Joyce but that is a total lie. Perhaps Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. As a trained molecular nutritionist, it upended the way I think about food, human health and environmental sustainability. I pulled my head out of the petri dish and have focused much more…

2. Stathis PsillosInterview

   Milkman by Anna Burns has been sitting on my desk for quite some time. But most of next year will be preoccupied with books about the seventeenth-century science and philosophy; about mechanisms and causation in the sciences; and about the metaphysics of science. At some point, I want to read Ulysses by James Joyce…

3. Ashley Hickson-LovenceInterview

   Ulysses by James Joyce – read most of it while studying for my BA and loved it, I’m sure I would have got even more out of it reading it aged 25.

4. Anthony MastromatteoInterview

   Setting aside the fact that I have no garden and despite all the efforts necessary to cultivate one, I would showcase humanity through the following 3 books: (1) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri…from the low to the high of humanity, literally, (2) Ulysses by James Joyce…because I loved the reading of it and…

5. Ramsey CampbellInterview

   That’s an odd one. At sixteen I’d already read quite a few books that helped point my way as a writer – Cry Horror by H.P. Lovecraft (his first British paperback collection, in which I lost myself for an entire day), Night’s Black Agents by Fritz Leiber (which revealed to me the possibilities of the modern urban…

6. Lawrence GrobelInterview

   Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Ulysses by James Joyce: Joyce blew my mind and gave me a goal. Could I ever write something as good as these books? Messed with my head for years, as each novel I wrote got shelved because they weren’t “good enough.” Finally came to my own epiphany: Joyce was a genius. I’m not…

7. Daniel HamermeshInterview

   Probably Ulysses by James Joyce. I read this in college for fun, and it made a lifelong-lasting impression.

8. Tim AtkinInterview

   I have very catholic tastes, so lots of things lined up. Starting with Keeping on Keeping On by Alan Bennett and a book about the famous Czech runner, Today We Die a Little by Richard Askwith. One of these days, it’s also time I got around to reading three of greatest novels ever written (or so I’m told): Ulysses by…

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