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By Piper Castillo
Published January 28, 2007
James A. W. Heffernan, professor of English emeritus at Dartmouth College, will be featured guest at James Joyce's 125th birthday celebration, hosted by the James Joyce Society of Sarasota, at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Selby Library, 1331 First St., Sarasota.
Q: What's on your nightstand?
I'm working my way through (Anthony Powell's) A Dance to the Music of Time, a 12-volume novel on Englishmen during the early 20th century. Schoolboys meet and live out their lives and endlessly complicated loves as England makes its way through two great wars and into the world we more or less recognize as our own.
When you take a break from teaching literature, what would you consider vacation reading?
Unhesitatingly, it would be (Joyce's) Ulysses. Ulysses, after all, is glorious fun, though I admit that it's also a lot of work. Any book that I don't plan to use for a specific writing project would qualify as fun; right now that would be Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Piper Castillo, Times staff writer
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