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A Bloomsday Mystery

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Story of John Kidd, a Ulysses Scholar

John Kidd was on track to create the definitive edition of Ulysses, but then disappeared. His early life is like a Wes Anderson news reel of an extraordinary and crackpot bending towards fabulism. He grew up with a brother of the same name just without the H,. John, JOHN, and John, JON - where the sons of Captain John William Kidd, a naval officer known as Starbuck.

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