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The Banned Book Conga Line: From Ulysses to Utah (with Comments from Yogi Berra): a Presentation by Jesse Meyers

Join Jesse Meyers for a look at the banning of James Joyce's serialized Ulysses in 1921 and the extraordinary follow up trial in 1933 which led to the removal of the ban and stunning changes in how American courts define censorship ever since. The court decision impacted the future works of a galaxy of major authors including Salinger, Mailer, Nabokov, Bellow, Morrison, Roth, Bradbury, Rushdie, and many, many others. 

Banned Books Week (September 22-28) is supported by the American Library Association. The 2024 theme is Freed Between the Lines. 

Date:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Marx Family Black Box Theater
Audience:
  Adult  
Categories:
  Literature and Writing  
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Jesse Meyers has been studying, teaching, and lecturing on the works of Joyce since retiring from newsletter-publishing in 1994. He has taught classes on Joyce at the Irish Consulate in NYC, at Barnes & Noble in NYC and at Fairfield University, the State University of New York at Purchase and -- for seven years -- at NYU's School of Continuing Education. He has lectured on Joyce before public and private organizations in the US, Canada, Ireland, France and Switzerland. More than 7,000 viewers have watched Jesse's 2022 lecture at Greenwich Library on the vast cultural impact of Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses. Jesse will lead a three-week literary session starting  October 7 at Greenwich Library which looks at James Joyce's Life, James Joyce's Poetry and Limericks, and the Global Cultural Impact of James Joyce's Works.