Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its Whole Wholume]
A newly resurfaced recording from The Etym and the Ondt has been added to the Opendoor Edition. This a cappella reading — an improvised first-take — was recorded in 2015. It features Henry Anderson, Parker McQueeney, Eli Salus-Kleiner, and Waywords […]
In case you haven’t heard, Finnegans Wake turns eighty this year — published 80 years ago, May 4, 1939 — & we’re celebrating with a big weekend event in Dublin, May 3rd through 5th at the Joyce Centre. We hope […]
June 16th is Bloomsday, and that means the streets will be filled with people wearing straw boater hats. But if you know what’s good, consider carrying a boombox too — battery-powered and ready to blast your favorite genre of James […]
2017 May 4 Release of Waywords and Meansigns We’re delighted to share with you the 2017 release of Waywords and Meansigns. Our Opendoor Edition features 123 recordings spanning 19 hours and 23 minutes from 15 countries. All audio is free […]
The latest issue of the James Joyce Quarterly (Volume 52, Number 1) includes a review of Waywords and Meansigns, by Aodhán Kelly and Tom De Keyser from the University of Antwerp. Focusing on the first edition of Waywords and Meansigns, […]
Waywords and Meansigns director Derek Pyle was interviewed by Marie Sartain for the James Joyce Quarterly’s “Clever, Very” blog series. Derek Pyle spoke about his own background, the evolution of the project, and the call for contributors for our 2017 […]
Waywords and Meansigns is headed to Europe! On Tuesday 14 June, Waywords and Meansigns director Derek Pyle will present at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Part of their Bloomsday Festival programme, Pyle will discuss the aim and scope of […]
Derek Pyle and Sara Jewell of Waywords and Meansigns recently interview Fuat Sevimay, on translating Finnegans Wake into Turkish. Sevimay’s unabridged translation is forthcoming in 2016 from Sel Publishing Company. “[Joyce], the master builder, says something in so-called English but […]
Australian author Denis Fitzpatrick has immortalized Waywords and Meansigns and project director Derek Pyle in absolutely delightful short story, published by The Short Story Club. It’s a love story and we are central to the falling in: ‘Adonis, you’ve heard […]
This fall contributors from Waywords and Meansigns will play two shows in Western Massachusetts, performing material from Finnegans Wake. Guaranteed, it will be weird, wild and fun. The first show is Saturday, September 26 at Flywheel Arts Collective. Flywheel […]