Under a full moon and with a pint of Guinness in hand, WAKE welcomes our very first Dublin-based reader, as correctly-accented Sarah Kane joins Toby and TJ to kick off Chapter 3.3. Sarah tells us all about participating in Bloomsday as a neophyte Joycean (“a lifeguard that can’t swim”), slips into a Joyce fugue state regardless of best laid plans, and reminds us that a cold read is really just what the kids nowadays call Rawdogging. With the glorious Irishness of it all to bring us through, we discuss Joyce reading groups, Sweny’s Pharmacy, Anthony Burgess, and, in a bombshell twist none of you saw coming, TJ's authentic Irish heritage.

This week's readers: Sarah Kane, Toby Malone, TJ Young

Progress: 496 pages complete, 132 pages to go; 78.98% read.

Contextual Notes

Sarah Kane on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodonyourshoe/

Bloomsday in Dublin: https://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/

Sweny’s Pharmacy: https://www.sweny.ie/

Sweny’s on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swenyspharmacydublin/

Anthony Burgess’s A Shorter Finnegans Wake: https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/a-shorter-finnegans-wake-editing-an-epic/

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