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True or not, these legends inspire us

Mike Pilewski says artificial legends, like the one about the giant Paul Bunyan, are a testament to the American spirit.

The airport as a mirror of human conditions. Photo by Stockbyte

Alain de Botton's philosophical week at Heathrow

If you passed through Terminal 5 in Heathrow Airport late last summer, you might have seen a man sitting at a desk in the departures area. He wasn't looking for boarding passes. He was writing a book. The result is titled A Week at the Airport.

James Joyce, textorized with an excerpt from Ulysses. Author: Maxf

In Dublin with James Joyce

The events in Ulysses took place in Dublin on 16 June 1904. The day has since grown into "Bloomsday", a festival of everything to do with James Joyce. If you'd like a break from cappuccino and croissants, you'll love the Bloomsday breakfast.

Ulysses "Seen", the online graphic novel adapted by Robert Berry from Joyce's Ulysses (http://ulyssesseen.com)

Joyce, Ulysses, Bloomsday - Medium

James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses chronicles the activities of Leopold Bloom in Dublin during the course of one day, 16 June 1904 (when Joyce first dated his future wife, Nora Barnacle). What happened in Ulysses? What's happening around Dublin on Bloomsday? Review the past tense and the present continuous.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' (and Hornet's) Nest

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "The apostrophe is in a different place."

Hay-on-Wye: Home to nearly 30 bookshops filled with fact and fiction.

Hay fever and summer writing workshops

From Harrogate to Harvard, participants in this summer's writing festivals eat, sleep, drink and breathe books. In Dublin, Hay-on-Wye and Iowa City, authors and instructors cheer on the would-be writers, encouraging them word by word.

Travelogs May: Visit Hay-on-Wye

Most famous, but least read

Mike Pilewski asks why more Germans seem to have read Mark Twain than Americans have.

Read all about it! The May Spotlight

Eamonn Fitzgerald writes: "Find out what's coming in the May Spotlight."

Portrait of Mark Twain (1890) by James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917)

On the Mississippi with Mark Twain

In 1909, Mark Twain said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it." The author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn died on 21 April 1910, a day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.

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