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Literature | In 1937 appearance, Joyce joined Hungarians ‘in the middle’
Jun 16 | Why has a 1937 alignment of literary stars not featured in Vienna in the European Championship’s cultural program? Vladimir Nabokov lectures in a Parisian literary salon and espies James Joyce “sitting, arms folded and glasses glinting, in the midst of the Hungarian football team.”
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Writes Eduardo Galeano of the new collection from University of Nebraska Press, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, "At the end, soccer believers will confirm ... that they have never been alone. And pagans will be converted." Go to website »
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