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 […]
Smart Set
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 […]
On this day…15 December
On 15 December 1913 Ezra Pound wrote to Joyce for the first time. Pound wrote to Joyce as the representative of magazines in England and America with an offer to consider anything Joyce might send for publication. Over the next eight years, Pound was to become a tireless worker on Joyce’s behalf, helping to get […]
