02.10 James Joyce and "The Dead"

In this special holiday episode, Kline and Booth discuss James Joyce's short story "The Dead" from his 1914 collection DUBLINERS, as well as the 1987 adaptation, John Huston's last film, and starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McGann. As they parse out the complexities of Joyce's style and what makes the story so quintessentially modernist, they also examine how it fits into the holiday literary tradition in its framings of home, family, love, and human connection. Listen to Joyce himself read from his final novel FINNEGANS WAKE here.