On 7 July 1915 Joyce wrote to HL Mencken. Mencken had published two stories from Dubliners in the Smart Set magazine, the first time that Joyce’s work had been published in America. Joyce wrote to thank Mencken for this and to tell him about his other works. Joyce’s July letter was in response to a […]
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On this day…23 March
On 23 March 1915 Joyce wrote to thank HL Mencken for publishing two stories. Joyce had just heard that the American magazine, the Smart Set, edited by HL Mencken, had agreed to publish two of the stories from Dubliners. The stories – ‘The Boarding House’ and ‘A Little Cloud’ – appeared in the May 1915 […]