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BLOOMSDAY AS EVERYDAY

Andy Merrifield

As is fitting for every June 16—for every BLOOMSDAY—this is my little tribute to James Joyce’s Ulysses and its famous day fêted across the world today. Leopold Bloom and “pussens” (Image by Eduardo Arroyo) Joyce was the maestro of listening to shouts in the street, of reporting on a day in...

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PARALLEL UNIVERSES

Andy Merrifield

For a long while, I’ve had a peculiar fantasy of bringing volume two of Marx’s Capital into dialogue with James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. I’ve always thought both books existed in a strange parallel universe, where capital courses alongside the Joycean riverrun, the river Liffey, and each share some...

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GOGOL’S “ROMA” BEYOND ROME

Andy Merrifield

Last Sunday, I took a rare outing beyond Rome, fifteen miles southeast to Ariccia, a historic small town in the Alban Hills, close to the picturesque volcanic lakes of Albano and Nemi. Contiguous to the larger Albano Laziale and a more famous Castel Gandolfo, site of the Pope’s summer residence,...

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LIVING IN THE BROADEST WAY IMMARGINABLE

Andy Merrifield

Over the years, there have been periods in my life when I’ve grown tired of reading, shocking as it may sound. I can’t find anything I want to read, and a lot on offer frankly bores me. When I lived in France, I read plenty in French, which helped freshen up the book world for me, and because I...

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JOYCEAN OBSESSIONS

Andy Merrifield

There’s something about James Joyce. Once you get into him, he becomes addictive, grabs you, inspires in you some obsessive devotion, a kind of fanaticism dedicated to the man and his works, a worship. When F. Scott Fitzgerald first met Joyce in person at a dinner party in Paris on July 27, 1928...

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DADA NEW YEAR: Tristan Tzara’s Boom, Boom, Boom

Andy Merrifield

Three years ago, on New Year’s Day 2023, I published a blog post about the avant-garde movement DADA and what it might mean for us today. It struck me that the essay is worth another airing, so please forgive the indulgence, the repetition; another attempt to instigate a DADA New Year! Best to you...

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GOGOL AT THE VILLA

Andy Merrifield

I don’t usually get invited to these things. I’m standing in the delightful grounds of Rome’s Villa Wolkonsky, the British Ambassador’s residence, a stone’s throw away from the Basilica San Giovanni in Laterano, full of imposter syndrome. It’s a gorgeous summer’s evening, mid-June, and I’m here as...

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GOGOL’S DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY

Andy Merrifield

Almost two-centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play, The Government Inspector, continues to create a stir each time it airs anew, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of nineteenth-century Russia...

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GOGOL’S STOMACH

Andy Merrifield

Gogol was passionate about food, reached obsessive proportions with it—in the portion sizes he consumed, in the elaborate descriptions around the dinner table in his stories. Zolotarev speaks of Gogol’s “stupendous appetite.” He and Gogol dined together often in Rome, tucking away at big dinners....

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PICTURING GOGOL

Andy Merrifield

A fifteen-minute stroll from Caffè Greco, west toward the Tiber, north in the direction of Piazza del Popolo, takes you to Via di Ripetta, which I head up, a narrow corridor running parallel to the river. I pass the Mansoleum of Augustus, the Academia Belle Arti Roma, and a few artisanal artist...

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Understanding Quick Sort for coding interviews

Deb Haldar

In the last three posts we looked at selection, bubble and insertion sort respectively. While it’s critical to know these basic sorting techniques, it’s unlikely you’d be asked to code one of these up for your next Microsoft/Google interview unless …The post Understanding Quick Sort for coding...

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Understanding Insertion Sort for coding interviews

Deb Haldar

In the last post we looked at how to really understand Bubble Sort by solving it on paper, one step at a time. We’ll take the same approach for Insertion Sort. As with most fundamental sorting algorithms, the chances of …The post Understanding Insertion Sort for coding interviews first appeared on...

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Understanding Bubble Sort for coding interviews

Deb Haldar

In the last post we looked at how to really understand Selection Sort by solving it on paper, one step at a time. We’ll take the same approach for Bubble Sort. While bubble sort is not one of the algorithms …The post Understanding Bubble Sort for coding interviews first appeared on A CODERS...

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Understanding selection sort for coding interviews

Deb Haldar

This is the first post in a series where we look at various sorting algorithms you’ll need to know for your next coding interview. I struggled with understanding basic sorting algorithms when i first encountered them in college. I tried …The post Understanding selection sort for coding interviews...

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How to send email using C# and Outlook.com

Deb Haldar

This is a note to myself. I recently had to write this code for the third time in my life in the last 11 years because I did not save it somewhere consumable. So putting it on my blog for …The post How to send email using C# and Outlook.com first appeared on A CODERS JOURNEY.

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