Wandering Rocks

We are enthused yet anxiety-ridden participants in an ongoing project called Wandering Rocks. WR is an online reading collective that is tackling James Joyce’s Ulysses. It officially launched on June 16th (to commemorate the single day Ulysses depicts, June 16, 1904). Participation is open to all.

Why should you willingly subject yourself to the literary morass that is Ulysses? Wandering Rocks founder and noted Joycean scholar Jerry Grit offers a few good reasons. (These are all stolen from the WR “About” page.)

• Do you want to read James Joyce’s Ulysses, but have shied away for its reputed formidability?
• Have you seen its title top numerous “Best Books” lists and felt a deep and irreconcilable shame that you consider yourself a literate person and have yet to take on Western Culture’s highest literary achievement?
• Do you like people sometimes? Especially the aging English major types comically frustrated by contemporary culture’s vapidity and who vainly long for interesting engagement of challenging texts?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, have we got an online reading group for you!

The Wandering Rocks website is here. We hope to see you there.