Well, this is a piece I was born to write. I can’t believe it came along. It was offered to me, too. That’s the weird thing. I got the assignment in January and immediately began a re-read of Finnegans Wake. I finished it in April. Meanwhile, I was researching Mary Ellen Bute, one of the most gratifying aspects of this entire project. I knew nothing about her. It was so much fun getting to know her and seeing her films (the ones available to be seen, that is). I rarely write stuff where I wish my Dad could read it. But this is one of those essays. So Dad gets a shout-out, of course.
You can pick it up at your local bookstore, but this one’s online too.
The River’s Roar: Mary Ellen Bute’s Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
You can check out the rest of the issue here.
