Literature
Ulysses (1986)
6/16/1904 · James Joyce
On June 16, 1904 — the day James Joyce first walked out with Nora Barnacle, the woman who would become his wife — Leopold Bloom moves across Dublin from morning to midnight, from a funeral to a library to Nighttown's brothel quarter and back home again. Bloomsday is now celebrated worldwide, with readings on street corners wherever Joyce is loved; the date is both a literary anniversary and proof that an unremarkable Tuesday can be the greatest novel ever written.