While “Ulysses” was his passion - he originated a weekly five-minute podcast to deconstruct the book and wrote a personal Baedeker to Joyce’s Dublin - he was also a literary impresario and interpreter who interviewed hundreds of fellow authors and was often solicited to judge book awards, including the Man Booker Prize. Delaney, who lived in Kent, Conn., died in Danbury Hospital, where he was being treated for a stroke he suffered the day before, said Jason H. Frank Delaney, an Irish-born author and broadcaster who, like most novices, initially dismissed James Joyce’s “Ulysses” as unreadable but later spent his career making that elusive novel about ordinary people accessible to ordinary readers, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn.
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