Joyce for idiots?

By Jason Diamond

A friend once told me that “only snobs, and English majors like Joyce”, and since said friend was herself an English major,  I figured it might be best to hold off reading anything by him until I was totally prepared.  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.

So when Mark Batty Publishing recently published Everyman’s Joyce, I was semi-stoked, because I like to consider myself part of the “everyman” market who thinks of themselves as “Joyce-curious”, and would like a pretty decent primer.

Unfortunatly, this isn’t the primer I was looking for, but it’s a sweet looking book