James Joyce Archives

by CG FEWSTON May 4, 2019

Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce & the Great Irish Novel

“We may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs but we’re presurely destined to be odd’s without ends.”

by CG FEWSTON March 8, 2017

Fiction Pictures

Nutshell (2016) by Ian McEwan & Dreams had in a Mother’s Womb

“But lately, don’t ask why, I’ve no taste for comedy, no inclination to exercise, even if I had the space, no delight in fire or earth, in words that once revealed a golden world of majestical stars, the beauty of poetic apprehension, the infinite joy of reason.”

by CG FEWSTON November 22, 2016

Fiction Pictures

I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around (2016) by Ann Garvin & the Woman who Didn’t Want to Grow Up

“The big question in my mind is not if your mom is coming back. It’s if Pete is, and if I’ll get a chance at having someone like you.”

by CG FEWSTON September 28, 2016

Fiction

The Dark Forest: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2 (2008/2015) by Cixin Liu & The Future of Humanity

“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).

by CG FEWSTON June 15, 2016

Fiction Pictures

The Three-Body Problem (2006/2014) by Cixin Liu & the Remembrance of Earth’s Past

“She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.”

by CG FEWSTON May 31, 2016

Fiction Film Pictures

Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami & the Songs of Seeking Love

“Well, to me, that’s what love is. Not that anyone can understand me, though.”

by CG FEWSTON June 4, 2015

Fiction Film Pictures Videos

Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce & The Creation of True Art

“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”

by CG FEWSTON April 19, 2014

Fiction Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. IV: Creative Mythology (1968) by Joseph Campbell & the Quest for the Holy Grail

“The artist lives thus in two worlds — as do we all; but he, in so far as he knows what he is doing, in a special state of consciousness of this micromacrocosmic crucifixion that is life on earth and is perhaps, also, the fire of the sun, stars, and galaxies beyond.”