🎭 Culture Aug 17, 2026 · Daisy Hildyard

James Joyce’s Baby Impressions and Other “Awkward Pleasures” of Literary Biography

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James Joyce’s Baby Impressions and Other “Awkward Pleasures” of Literary Biography
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In the Lake District, 1994.
Each week, The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews for our readers from our archive. This week, we’ve unlocked our interview with Hermione Lee, selected from the archive by Daisy Hildyard, whose story “Two Lives” appears in our recent Summer issue. Sign up for the Redux newsletter to receive these pieces to your inbox every Sunday morning.
Everybody dabbles in biography. If you have ever spoken at a funeral, rewritten your CV, or gossiped, you’ve had t

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