Over at the Finnegans Wake blog, Peter Quadrino does a roundup of "A Few Notable Books on Joyce and His Afterlives," and the books he considers includes the Hilaritas Press book released this year, Straight Outta Dublin: James Joyce and Robert Anton Wilson, by Eric Wagner, with a big contribution by R. Michael Johnson. Here's what Peter had to say about the book (which he says he hasn't finished yet):
"This book examines the influence of the works of Joyce on the work of the Robert Anton Wilson, especially focusing on Finnegans Wake. The author Eric Wagner has been hosting Finnegans Wake reading groups for many years and has previously written a guide to the works of Robert Anton Wilson. Here, in a fragmented and digressive approach drawing from a wide array of disciplines, Wagner indulges in in-depth discussions of the Wake, drawing on the insights of John Bishop, Hugh Kenner, Joseph Campbell, while also venturing into other modernists like Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, and thinkers like Alfred Korzybski and Wilhelm Reich. In the latter half of the book, R. Michael Johnson (otherwise known as the OG, author of a great Substack) provides a detailed survey of the Joyce elements that appear across all of RAW's books. "
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Thank you Peter and Tom. Today marks the bicentennial of the Decembrist Uprising.
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