Happy Bloomsday!

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.16.09 | 3:47 PM ET

A few links from around the internet to commemorate Bloomsday:

AFP Reports that, despite the global recession, thousands of James Joyce fans streamed into Dublin today to celebrate.
In the Guardian, Declan Kiberd explains just why Dublin has come to embrace Bloomsday, calling Ulysses “modernism’s most sociable masterpiece.”
Colum McCann wrote a touching piece in the New York Times about how Ulysses provided him with comfort and connection to his late grandfather.
Of course, on Twitter you can follow @StephenDedalus and @LeopoldBloom.

Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.

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