How did syphilis influence Joyce's creative process?
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In honor of Bloomsday the Brooklyn Quarterly interviews Kevin Birmingham, author of "The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses." Birmingham gives us a book that reads as part legal thriller and part narrative nonfiction, revealing that the modernist masterpiece provoked strong and sometimes unexpected reactions: Virginia Woolf refused to publish it. Ezra Pound defended it with the best force of his reputation, only to become its first censor. And Margaret Anderson, founder of The Little Review, the original magazine to publish Ulysses, stopped reading part-way through the novel, looked up and said, “This is the most beautiful thing we’ll ever have. We’ll print it if it’s the last effort of our lives.”
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