I’m told this month marks the centennial of James Joyce’s Ulysses. As for me and Ulysses, the story is not exactly an epic. But it did start with one: Tolstoy’s War & Peace. I was living in central Pennsylvania, in 1997-2001, and had a habit of reading while sitting on the john. It was there that I discovered…

My Weird Odyssey With Joyce’s “Ulysses” — A Friendly Letter