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WAKE: Cold Reading Finnegans Wake
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Toby Malone & TJ Young cold-read James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”, out loud, just once.
Purists & neophytes welcome.

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We are devastated over the death of Georgia Malone, Toby's sister, at 45. Georgia appeared on Ep12 of WAKE (The Mookse and the Gripes) and hosted her own podcast, Here Goes Nothing. Check out Georgia's podcast and see what an extraordinary person she was.
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April 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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What? WAKEwear? Whoa!

By popular demand: WAKEwear! You've listened to WAKE, you've read the Wake, now wear the Wake, with this series of Finnegans Wake-themed products from the WAKE podcast.

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April 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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The Patron Saint of WAKE, @michaelianblack.bsky.social, sends his hearty congratulations on finishing the Wake.
April 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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In the grand tradition of Finnegans Wake, WAKE has looped back around on itself to become a self-generating machine, as we welcome back musical innovator and the most reckless of stramashers, @tommyreckless.bsky.social, to talk about WAKE: the Album!
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April 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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On this week’s special bonus episode of WAKE, Toby and TJ welcome internationally renowned neuroscientists, Professors Adrian Peyrache and Arjun Krishnaswamy, to talk about what’s going on inside our brains while we sleep!
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March 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Peter O’Brien is an artist, a visionary, and a life-long Joycean, with the energy to not only dream up one major Finnegans Wake-centric artistic offshoot, but is busy scheming about how to top it.

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February 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Today on WAKE we were honoured to be joined by Igor Belokrinitsky from the wonderful Ukrainian @wake-in-progress.bsky.social Reading Group! WAKE stands with Ukraine!
February 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This week on WAKE: we welcome Zoe Patterson, a PhD Candidate at Trinity College Dublin, whose doctoral studies centre on James Joyce reading groups.
January 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Numerologists rejoice: WAKE has hit the master number, and to celebrate, JJ has chosen to drop the subtlety and let his freak flag fly! Cohen may have said there was a crack in everything, but we don't want to know what people would accuse HCE of doing with it.
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January 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Little is more synonymous with Ireland as a creamy pint of Guinness. Many have discussed Joyce’s relationship with the black stuff, yet few consider the role Guinness plays in Finnegans Wake. WAKE explores the dozens of references to Guinness in the Wake. Sláinte! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
December 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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It’s been a busy year here at WAKE, so like all the other Bookstagram profiles out there, we present to you our exhaustive list of all the books we read this year on WAKE.
December 26, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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It’s the WAKE Christmas episode! As we take a break on the reading for the holiday period, Toby spends a little bit of time considering how James Joyce approached Christmas in all four of his major works. Happy holidays from everyone at WAKE! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
December 25, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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It’s always a treat when your smartest friend can join you for a chat: especially when it's the kind of friend who makes you feel smarter yourself. Visionary Neil Wechsler is back on WAKE to read part of 3.3, roll past the 500 p mark, and to get into the weeds.
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December 18, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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December 6, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Polyglot Ana Dahlberg is a lover of Joyce, a participant in Bloomsday, and is a certified member of an extremely exclusive club: she has survived Finnigans Wake. Today in a bonus WAKE, we talk to Ana about her exasperating, bewildering, rage-filled experience.
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December 6, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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No one ever likes to WAKE alone, but sometimes the occasion calls for it. On a dark day in WAKE-world, Toby takes the reins solo to deal with the apuckalips, or at least what feels like it.
Progress: 473 pages complete, 155 pages to go; 75.32% read.
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December 4, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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New WAKE! Scottish musician, editor, author @tommyreckless.bsky.social joins the fold, not only to teach us an ever-so useful Scottish term for chaos, but also to discuss his Joyce-music 'stramashups', the pitfalls of adaptation, punk music, & creepy death masks.
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November 27, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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WAKE just hit 2000 streams! Join the party so you can tell your purist friends that you’ve read Finnegans Wake! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
November 24, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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The hundred-letter 'thunderwords' are arguably the most enduring, well-known, & mystifying feature of #FinnegansWake, jumbles of letters cobbling together words from far-flung languages to create a word salad of difficulty emblematic of the challenges of the Wake. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
November 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Hooraymost! It’s #finneganswake 3.1, the dirtiest chapter featuring insect erotica in all of literature, so grab your doodlers and bungholes, we’re going spizzing with Wakexpert @lucybrazier.bsky.social!

Progress: 428 pages complete, 200 pages to go; 68.15% read.
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November 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM