Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction
The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance. Dwight Garner, The New York Times
James Joyce s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable...