At Vol.1, Jason Diamond discusses a new book on the work of James Joyce:

To me, Joyce has always seemed like a hefty task to take on, and I feel like if I am ever going to truly make any judgments, I really need to be ready before I pick up Finnegans Wake or Ulysses.

Between this and Blake Butler’s “James Joyce Does Not Exist,” I’ve had James Joyce on the brain a lot lately. And given the popularity of Infinite Summer, and the news that the politics & culture site The American Scene will be looking into the work of John Dos Passos with “Fall of the U.S.A.”, I’m wondering whether something similar for one of James Joyce’s books might not be inevitable. I’d certainly welcome it.