Louisiana Literature

Colum McCann: What Ulysses Did to Me

Louisiana Channel Season 1 Episode 15

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”The blood that moves through me right now is my great grandfather's blood, but the reason I know him, is because I read Ulysses” says Irish writer Colum McCann in this interview about James Joyce’s modernist novel.

Colum McCann was interviewed by journalist Synne Rifbjerg backstage at the Louisiana Literature festival in August 2013.