Bloomsday is Dublin's yearly celebration of Ulysses, native son James Joyce's monumental tome that takes place entirely on June 16, 1904. NYC's McNally Robinson kicks off the commemorative event one day early, with a book-club-style lecture and discussion of the notoriously dense book. Anyone who has tried reading it knows that Ulysses can be its own kind of odyssey; Robert Seidman, co-author of the annotated edition, is on hand to elaborate.