Lit List: Thursday June 16, 2016
/- In celebration of Bloomsday, a "rare and intimate" interview with James Joyce from 1930, newly translated. (Granta)
- Today in history, James Joyce meets his future wife, Nora, and immortalizes the day in Ulysses. (History)
- Virginia Woolf on the Relationship Between Loneliness and Creativity: Woolf expresses her loneliness in a personal diary reflecting her creative genius. (Brain Pickings)
- Some of the most memorable lines from literature (Electric Lit)
- Jamie Glover and Hayley Atwell Narrate the Plays of Sophocles: "A group of well-known actors have been recruited to narrate a new audiobook edition of Sophocles’ three Theban plays (GalleyCat)
- Booker prize-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood is awarded this year's PEN Pinter prize (The Guardian)
- Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler updates Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." (Huffington Post)
- Hong Kong Bookseller Says He Was Detained by China: Bookseller Lam Wing-kee describes his abduction. (The New York Times)
- Wicked Movie Officially Announced: Gregory Maguire’s novel, first adapted into "one of the most successful stage musicals of all-time," will become a movie. (The Fire Wire)