Really good piece by Alan Jacobs connecting Joyce's "Ulysses" to today's information ...

The second episode of "Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera" is out! This one tells the story of how I turned myself into an opera freak by forcing myself to listen to nothing but opera music — 100 selected arias in random order, eight hours a day every day while I worked for months — until osmosis took effect and I honestly started recognizing, appreciating and eventually deeply enjoying the melodies ...

Timing is everything. An article declaring that indie book blogs are dead made the social media rounds just yesterday, as I was about to announce something new on Litkicks: my first podcast. Well, it's true that a lot of book blogs are dead, but Literary Kicks never followed any trends — except the ones we want to follow, like podcasting. It's more fun trying something new than dying, right?