"Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves." It's not just any day though: it's Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses! Today marks the 107th anniversary of the day during which the book takes place, and there are numerous worthy tributes, readings and musical events going on all around the city! Check out some of our picks below:

  • At noon, there will be the annual "Bloomsday on Broadway" at Symphony Space. Their event will include a Ulysses marathon, staged by Isaiah Sheffer, and involving over 100 actors. The event will last over 12 hours! Even if you can't make it out there, they will be broadcasting the whole thing on WNYC 93.9FM beginning at 8:00 p.m.
  • Starting at 2 p.m., the Black Sheep Pub on Bergen Street will begin the Bloomsday in Brooklyn celebration. Joyce fans travel to five Brooklyn pubs, semi-recreating the events of Leopold Bloom's day, with different actors performing readings from Ulysses at each while musicians will play traditional Irish standards.
  • From 7 p.m.- 2 a.m., you can listen to Radio Bloomsday, the 30th annual 7-hour broadcast of excerpts from the book, which can be heard on WBAI, 99.5 FM, or streamed live on wbai.org. The broadcast will feature performers including Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Jerry Stiller, Garrison Keillor, Wallace Shawn, Kate Valk, Paul Dooley, Bob Odenkirk, Paul Muldoon, Anne Enright, T. Ryder Smith, Jim Fletcher, Marc Maron and Caraid O'Brien as Molly Bloom.
  • At 7:30 p.m., Staten Island OutLOUD will hold their annual community celebration. It's free for the public, and is comprised of participatory readings of the novel, meaning that anyone who attends the event will have the opportunity the read a portion of the epic, accompanied by live music. They add: "adults only."
  • At 8 p.m., the Brooklyn Lyceum will hold their Bloomsday Celebration, with resident Joycean scholar Emmet Mc Gowan reading excerpts from the novel. The organizers say the evening will be dedicated to "The new york society for the suppression of vice", who helped to ban the book in the US until 1933.
  • Lastly, if you don't feel like stepping outside today, you can still partake in the celebration online...on Twitter! "Ulysses Meets Twitter 2011" has asked social networkers to tweet the novel in excerpts of 140 characters at a time over a 24-hour period. Twitter users can follow along with the excerpts by following @11ysses.