My Bravest Friends Are Rawdogging Ulysses. It's Tearing My Book Club Apart.
Briefly

"Though the plot is relatively straightforward-the action takes place over a single summer day and follows a few down-on-their-luck misfits around Dublin-the language with which Joyce tells that story is both mind-bendingly idiosyncratic and overflowing with incisive digressions."
"So it's no surprise that the moment Ulysses was published in 1922, scholars started to build a cottage industry out of breaking down the book's thorny mystique for pedestrian readers... Today, even the lyric-annotation database Genius is home to group-sourced interpretations of Joyce's many discursive trapdoors."
Read at Slate Magazine
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