Ulysses Centenary & 75th JJS Anniversary II: Robert Spoo and Kerri Maher

Robert Spoo, “Ulysses in New York: Everything But 1922"

Kerri Maher, presenting her new novel, "The Paris Bookseller"

Friday, 4 February 2022 5:00pm-7:00pm

New York Institute of Technology, 11th Floor Auditorium 16 West 61st Street, New York, NY, 10023, United States

Registration required: 

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The James Joyce Society was officially formed in February, 1947 at the Gotham Book Mart, 41 West 47th Street in midtown Manhattan. ("New York" has never been part of its name, as it was the first organisation devoted to Joyce.) The first to pay membership dues was T.S. Eliot. The JJS story parallels much of the history of Joyce reception and dissemination in that the group owes its existence to a woman, in this case Frances Steloff, owner and proprietor of the Gotham–"the Sylvia Beach of New York," as the late Zach Bowen called her.