The Next Chapter

What Hey Rosetta!'s Tim Baker is reading

The singer/songwriter talks about Dubliners by James Joyce.

Tim Baker from the indie rock band Hey Rosetta! discusses the book he is currently re

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Tim Baker from the indie rock band Hey Rosetta! was on The Next Chapter to discuss the book he is currently reading.

"Dubliners by James Joyce is a book of short stories set around the turn of the century: 1900s, late 1800s. They are just stories about regular Dubliners. All these characters from this one city at this one time, and from it you get this great humanist mosaic of what that town is and what it is to be there at that time. Even though it's often very tragic, I really, really enjoy the way that Joyce writes and I love that time and that place. I've only been to Dublin once but it really felt like going home. It's like a memory you never actually had, but is still somehow in you and that's what reading Joyce is all about. There is something paternal and familiar and beautiful about it, even in its tragedy."

Tim Baker's comments have been condensed and edited.