Show Notes
It's an episode to savour, as Toby and TJ look back on the always entertaining Book 3 of the Wake, and all the fun we had along the way. With great guests, amazing community, purist support, and laughs aplenty, Book 3 has been all the fun you'd expect from the segment of the Wake set just before the dawn. With discussions that include global simulacra, along with legendary Wakeists like Bernard Benstock, Simon Loekle, Ben Watson, and Richard Harte, we throw the doors wide to encourage you to access the inaccessible here on Wake, where the Tap-Out button is no longer welcome.
This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young
Progress: 590 pages complete, 38 pages to go; 93.95% read.
Contextual Notes
Trent Dalton
Brandon Nicklaus’s blog From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay
r/jamesjoyce
r/wakepod
WAKE on YouTube
WAKE Part 1 Supercut
WAKE Part 2 Supercut
Benstock, Bernard. Joyce Again’s Wake.
Collard, David. Multiple Joyce. London: Sagging Meniscus P, 2022.
The legacy of Simon Loekle
The Wake in pictures, Peter Quadrino
FW as simulacrum
Katarzyna Bazarnik JOYCE, LIBERATURE AND WRITING OF THE BOOK
Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical Edition
John Gordon filling the gaps
Documents from Furina:
i. Christmas Eve, written in Trieste in 1904 as attested to his brother Stanislaus; a short story (finished but fair copy incomplete) intended for Dubliners but withdrawn due to unknown reasons; a fragment was later reincorporated into Clay.
ii. The Cat of Beaugency, dit The Cat and the Devil, written on 10 August 1936 in Villers-sur-Mer in a letter to his grandson, the late Stephen James Joyce; epistolary, infantile fable.
iii. The Cats of Copenhagen, written on 5 September 1936 in Copenhagen's Turist Hotel in a postcard to his grandson (one may perhaps consider it a sort-of 'sequel' to the previous entry), the late Stephen James Joyce; epistolary, infantile fable.
iv. The incipit of the holograph manuscript of The Dead, from the collections of Yale University.
v. The original version of the short story The Sisters, as published (under the pseudonym Stephen Dædalus) in the "Our Weekly Story" section of The Irish Homestead on 13 August 1904; as commissioned by George William "Æ" Russell, who later appeared in Ulysses.
vi. An extract from a letter (dated 14 August 1925) to Harriet Shaw Weaver: a poem called The Waste Land; a parody of T. S. Eliot's chef d'œuvre of the same name.
vii. An extract from a similar, earlier letter (dated 13 June 1925) to the same recipient: a poem called Canto; a parody of Ezra Pound's modernist epic - it is not a parody of any particular canto but a general jab at the style.
viii. The history and evolution of the poem "Tilly", the first and 'bonus' poem of Pomes Penyeach; written in Dublin in 1904.
ix. A remastered and enhanced version of Joyce declaiming John F. Taylor's oration from the seventh episode, 'Aeolus', of Ulysses.
x. A recording of Joyce's only other musical composition (aside from The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly) - Bid Adieu - setting the eleventh entry from his début collection of poetry, Chamber Music. The singer is tenor Kevin McDermott and the pianist is Ralph Richey.
xi. The full text - part I and part II - of Finn's Hotel; eleven 'epicleti' which were sketches of the Work in Progress, written in Paris and Bognor Regis in 1923. .pdf available here.
xii. C. K. Ogden's 1932 translation of the last four pages of the Anna Livia Plurabelle closing chapter of Book I, as supervised by the artist, intoBasic English, along with the translator's preface.
Ben Watson and Frank Zappa
Ben Watson: Finnegans Wake vs. Theory
Here Comes Everybody’s Karma
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Long-promised, finally delivered! No, Toby and TJ didn't get their Finnegans Wake tattoos yet (it might happen one day), but we are finally back to talk about half of WAKE's epic visit to Ireland! Listen to the audio podcast but also hop on over to YouTube to enjoy the first-ever visual WAKE, complete with the kind of holiday slideshow you might remember from your childhood, complete with one-sided narration and images of somewhere you didn't go. Toby discusses his favourite stops in Ireland, through Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Dingle, Limerick, Clare, and Galway, and all the amazing people he met along the way. Before we get there, though, join us through a rollicking discussion of classic literature, Pulitzer Prize winners, Hamlet's 'to be' speech, and plenty more. We are so glad to be back! Show Notes: WAKE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod Obscure https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/obscure-with-michael-ian-black/id1388660385 We Burn So Bright by TJ Klune: https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=we+burn+so+bright&ref=nav_sb_noss_l_17 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211004089-wild-dark-shore Angel Down: https://www.danielkraus.com/books/angel-down/ Fitzgerald’s of Sandycove: https://fitzgeraldsofsandycove.com/blog/ Anna Livia: https://www.olddublintown.com/anna-livia-sculpture.html The Hi-B Bar, Cork: https://www.instagram.com/hibbarcork/ Saoirse https://www.giaf.ie/festival/event/saoirse Padaicin https://www.giaf.ie/festival/event/padraicin Nora Barnacle’s House https://thisisgalway.ie/the-history-of-nora-barnacle-house/ Nora by Nuala O’Connor https://nualaoconnor.com/home/novels/nora/
Vince Gilligan called, and WAKE answered! Toby and TJ are back for this special episode of WAKE, in response to the casual name-dropping of Finnegans Wake in the new Apple+ series, Pluribus. We spend some spoiler-filled time (spoiling the ending of both Pluribus AND Finnegans Wake) discussing this definitely-too-deliberate-to-be-accidental reference to Joyce’s final masterpiece, and what it might mean for the show as a whole. We’re talking falls, and loops, and morals, and humanity: all the things you’ve come to love about WAKE. SHOW NOTES: WAKE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod GMWKS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gmwks/id1509334531 Georgia Malone’s Here Goes Nothing: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georgia-malones-here-goes-nothing/id1794562157 Never Die Wondering: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/never-die-wondering-mick-malone-in-his-own-words/id1833715593 Abraham’s Tetramorfeus: https://www.facebook.com/abrahamhosebr/posts/tetramorfeus/658179911649980/ Abraham on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/uk/book/show/236604119-liber-t Abraham's Joyce writings: https://abrahamhosebrlibrarium.wordpress.com/category/%d0%b4%d0%b6%d0%b5%d0%b9%d0%bc%d1%81-%d0%b4%d0%b6%d0%be%d0%b9%d1%81/ Pluribus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/ The Suspended Sentence: https://thesuspendedsentence.com/2026/01/25/its-plurbin-time-pluribus-and-finnegans-wake/ The Wake and Pluribus: https://www.soapcentral.com/shows/all-mankind-becomes-united-pluribus-fans-convinced-show-takes-inspiration-classic-novel-finnegans-wake Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pluribustv/comments/1oxo1dv/finnegans_wake/ Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/jamesjoyce/comments/1or08bk/anyone_watch_pluribus/ Katarzyna Bazarnik’s JOYCE, LIBERATURE AND WRITING OF THE BOOK (diagram toward the bottom): http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v8_2/main/essays.php?essay=bazarnik Portergirl Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portergirl-podcast/id1822951117
As we bask in the wake of completing the Wake, Toby and TJ welcome renowned author, librarian, academic, and bookfluencer George Koors to discuss how to get into the Wake, as well as what to do after it's done. We discuss the benefits and risks of BookTok, Bookstagram, and BookTube, the egalitarian nature of Joyce ensuring that through complexity all readers are rendered the same, and consider the dangers of placing beloved texts on syllabi. We discuss Taylor Swift, Ben Jonson, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and George hits us with two monumental recommendations that will rattle your brain and strain at your wallet. To top it all, we get the world exclusive scoop on TJ's new play, learn the term "typoglycemia" and consider the weight we can place on art that survives time. We'd like to think WAKE is one of those survivors, as we enter our end-of-series hiatus... This week's chatters: George Koors, Toby Malone, TJ Young References George's website: https://www.georgekoors.com/ George on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gbk7288/ Always the Wanderer: https://www.amazon.com/Always-Wanderer-George-Bernard-Koors/dp/1936135159 George Koors - YouTube Let's Talk About James Joyce's Finnegans Wake James Joyce's Finnegans Wake In Less Than 2 Minutes Arno Schmidt Zettels Traum (Bottom’s Dream) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6088384 https://www.georgekoors.com/ George’s petition to make Zettels Traum accessible! https://www.georgekoors.com/post/help-me-fight-literary-gatekeeping-let-s-make-arno-schmidt-s-zettels-traum-more-accessible Carlos Fuentes Terra Nostra https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59415.Terra_Nostra?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=cbUx0TDs2A&rank=1 For early drops, community and show notes, join us at our free Patreon, at patreon.com/wakepod, or check out our Linktree, at https://linktr.ee/wake.pod. We welcome comments from everyone: even, nay, especially, the dreaded purists. Come and "um actually" us!
We can't believe it. Can you believe it? We actually finished reading Finnegans Wake. What started out as a podcast to read an "unreadable book" has turned into a journey that has endeared us to a magical community, connected with our family and friends, and reawakened our sense of what art can be. While sometimes it felt like climbing a sheer cliff-face, the toeholds we gained along the way made this a delightfully fulfilling project. For this final episode, Toby and TJ look back on WAKE and consider how you know when a project is over, embracing confusion, and how much we appreciate the spectators at the end of a marathon. We talk Joyce on film, Pinter, the Beatles, Lord of the Rings, and hypertexts, and pinpoint the exact moment the Harry Potter franchise lost TJ. We take on translation, and gimmicks, and mountaineering, and the question of how-fast-is-too-fast-to-read-the-Wake. Then, as we consider the stadium-sized Rubik's Cube that is the Wake, we are visited by the Patron Saint of WAKE for words of congratulations. It's an unmissable end to what has indeed proven to be a surprisingly listenable podcast. This week's chatters: Toby Malone, TJ Young Progress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read. Contextual Notes The Patron Saint of WAKE Michael Ian Black congratulates WAKE! Michael Ian Black Substack Referenced Texts Fadiman, Clifton. “Don’t Shoot the Book-Reviewer; He’s Doing the Best He Can.” The New Yorker. April 28, 1939. Norris, David, and Carl Flint. Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide. London: Icon Books, 2013. McCreedy, Jonathan. (2022). Joyceradamus: Foretelling the Age of Trump in Finnegans Wake. Joyce Studies in Italy: Joyspace: James Joyce and Space, 23 (2021): 159-74. Rose, David. Cryptogrammic Cryptograms: Fungi in Finnegans Wake. Collard, David. Multiple Joyce. London: Sagging Meniscus P, 2022. Glasheen, Adaline. Third census of Finnegans wake : an index of the characters and their roles. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1977. Benstock, Bernard. Joyce-Again’s Wake. Turnbull, Caldwell. No Gods, No Monsters. Wake in the World Finnegan Wake! Mirko Buffini’s HCE Collection Hoyne Brewing: Finnegans Irish Stout Translating the Wake Reading James Joyce's Finnegans Wake in Korean by Sang Hyun Lee 187 Dai, Congrong. "A Chinese Translation of Finnegans Wake: The Work in Progress." James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 47 no. 4, 2010, p. 579-588. Project MUSE Nothing’s Impossible: Finnegans Wake Translated into Chinese. Eishiro, Ito. Two Japanese Translations of Finnegans Wake Compared: Yanase (1991-1993) and Miyata (2004) Kenji Hayakawa. Francois-Victor Hugo’s Shakespeare: Joyce on Film Roger Ebert on Bute’s Wake film Bute’s Film Strick’s Ulysses The Film Resources FinWake.com FWEET Peter Quadrino’s Blog Chicken’s Guide Buffalo James Joyce Collection Richard Harte Peter O’Brien Reading Groups: https://finneganswake.org/ReadingGroups.shtml Podcasts Frank Delaney’s Re-Joyce: Joseph Strick’s Ulysses on Three Castles Burning 1954: The Birth of Bloomsday on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/1954-the-birth-of-bloomsday Exploring Lucia Joyce (with Joe Chester) on Three Castles Burning: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/exploring-lucia-joyce-with-joe-chester WAKE To find TJ: https://www.tj-young.com/ To find Toby: https://linktr.ee/turglife WAKE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wake.pod/ WAKE on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/WAKEPOD WAKE on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WAKEpod WAKE on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wakepod.bsky.social WAKE on X: lol, fuck you Elon
There's nothing quite like ticking off a bucket list item, and today is the day, where Toby and TJ come to the end of the long reading road to finally finish Finnegans Wake. Before we get there, though, we have superstar guest Neil Wechsler to guide us through his favourite section of the book, along with passionate opinions on Hollywood hypocrisy, problematic shortcuts, and how the unique structure of the Wake is not a joke, nor a gimmick, but in fact proof that the human race is not entirely doomed. Joyce gives us an ending that's worth the wait, and feels well earned, as the pain of the cycle ends in a note of hope. We may have finished with the Wake, but we have a feeling it's not quite finished with us yet. This week's readers: Neil Wechsler, Toby Malone, TJ Young Progress: 628 pages complete, 0 pages to go; 100% read. Contextual Notes James Joyce Collection at the University at Buffalo: https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/ The Wake at the UB collection: https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/catalog/vi-finnegans-wake/ A proposed JJ museum through the Buffalo collection: https://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/pdf/james-joyce-museum.pdf Joyce-again's wake: An analysis of Finnegans wake, Bernard Benstock: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331509.Joyce_again_s_wake A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake, William York Tindall: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59480.A_Reader_s_Guide_to_Finnegans_Wake Jeffrey Jarome Cohen: Monster Culture: Seven Theses: https://ptfaculty.gordonstate.edu/rscoggins/Cohen,%20Monster%20Culture%20(Seven%20Theses),%203-20.pdf Sorry Finn https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/finn-fordham Benstock, Bernard. Joyce Again’s Wake. https://www.loc.gov/item/65023908/ Neil Wechsler’s website: https://wechslerprojects.com/ Neil on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wechslerprojects/ Our favourite play, Grenadine: https://www.amazon.ca/Grenadine-Neil-Wechsler/dp/0300149921 Neil on New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/37010/neil-wechsler