Roaming and Reading: James Joyce and Maya Angelou

We've started a segment on The Daily Circuit called Roaming and Reading. It's a mash-up of two things Kerri loves: literature and travel.

In this installment, we travel to James Joyce's Dublin. We also note the passing of poet Maya Angelou, whom Kerri interviewed in October 2007. (Listen to extended excerpts of that interview here.)

Our guide to Dublin is Slate books columnist Mark O'Connell. He recently wrote about Dublin and Joyce:

The thing about "Dubliners" is that it never loses its capacity to draw me into its confined narrative spaces, with all their cruel precision and humane comedy, all their beauty and their bleakness, their terrible evocations of boredom and desperation and yearning and entrapment. And if you live in Dublin, if you are yourself a Dubliner, no matter how many times you read the book, it will always reveal something profound and essential and unrealized about the city and its people. Somehow or another, it will always hit you where you live.