ESP.LITERATURE

A Convocation of Wordsmiths

Essays, Stories, & Poems


Miscellany

  • BLOOMSDAY

    The books of James Joyce, Ulysses in particular, were banned and burned by both British and American publishing pundits although several were lauded as literary masterpieces. A child of a rancorous, impoverished family, educated in Dublin by Jesuits, he held himself invulnerable behind a wall of aesthetic and ethical abstractions, rejecting family, nation, and church… Continue reading

  • A Brief Note

    A friend has argued that my work deserves a wider audience (Debatable, that.) She suggested that I create a number of small books, condensed versions they would be, samplers, so to speak; she thought an inexpensive print book would be the cat’s meow. I thought a complimentary (insert your favorite diatribe on the Monetization of… Continue reading