James Joyce's Lost Opera - Umberto Tosi
Sylvia Beach & James Joyce at Shakespeare & Co., c. 1922 With Bloomsday less than two weeks off, I would love to hop an Aer Lingus jet to the Emerald Isle (where I've never been, actually) and go on the annual June 11- 16, Dublin street carnival and crawl tracing Leopold Bloom's footsteps through the city that James Joyce had to leave to write about so brilliantly. Not to compare myself to Joyce, but I can relate. My move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Chicago ten years ago somehow opened gates to my writing more stories set in California where I spent my childhood and much of my adult life. No bucket-list Bloomsday crawl for me this June, however. I will be at home, sequestered from the coronavirus like any sane octogenarian and to hell with risking my life to "open the economy" for Mr. Trump and his cronies. In any case, most if not all Bloomsday fests around the world have been called off or postponed this pandemic year. I'll spend anoth...