Tyler: Here's an easy one, then. James Joyce,
overrated or underrated? They're watching
back home.
Cass: I'm from an Irish family, so I think
underrated. "Ulysses" is arguably the richest
novel in the last 150 years. Not the greatest,
but the richest.
Tyler: Richest in what sense?
Cass: That it's just full of multiple interpretations
that aren't an interpolation of smart reader,
but are actually there in the materials. There's
stuff from Irish history, stuff from the Bible,
stuff about men and women that are extremely
surprising and variable from one chapter to
another.
