Bloomsday at The Civil Life

June 16th is Bloomsday! In cities around the world (especially Dublin), people will be reading aloud from one of the greatest novels ever written. Come to The Civil Life to celebrate what the Modern Library called the best English language novel of the twentieth century. At noon, I will read the opening section of Ulysses* (with restorative sips of ale taken as needed), and sometime before we close, someone (preferably a woman, or perhaps a drag queen) will read excerpts from Molly Bloom’s soliloquy, which closes the novel. The whole soliloquy consists of eight very long “sentences” and takes about two and a half hours to read (this is a very large number if translated into pints). In between, volunteers will read from their favorite sections of the novel. Stay tuned to sign up. If you don’t have a favorite section yet but would like to read, I can pick something for you. Or stop by the Civil Life and flip through one of our copies of the novel while having a pint.