Arthur Power

Joyce in conversations with his friend Arthur Power, or what Power remembered having talked to Joyce about. Power used to go home after spending an evening with Joyce and jot down notes about their conversations. Louis Menand mentioned Powers's book in an article on Joyce in the 2 July 2012 New Yorker, which I read at the time and was then ale to find this used copy: The University of Chicago Press. 1974. Phoenix edition 1982. Edited with Foreword by Clive Hart. Reprint. Originally published London: Millington, 1974. Not sure why Goodreads can't find a cover pic.

I wrote about these Power conversations at the Toads blog:
https://joelinker.com/2012/08/20/james-joyce-on-writing-write-dangerously/

There are many memorable Joyce quotes in the Power book about writing, how and what to write, Joyce talking about his own method of writing, about his preferred subjects:

“I know when I was writing Ulysses I tried to give the colour and tone of Dublin with my words; the drab, yet glistening atmosphere of Dublin, its hallucinatory vapours, its tattered confusion, the atmosphere of its bars, its social immobility – they could only be conveyed by the texture of my words. Thought and plot are not so important as some would make them out to be. The object of any work of art is the transference of emotion; talent is the gift of conveying that emotion” (98).… (plus d'informations)