James Joyce Ramble spread out along the course. Six Joycean works have been selected, and the story being told changes each of the six miles of the race. The works, in the order in which they are read are: Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Dubliners, and The Dead. In 2014, to celebrate the 100th Centennial of the publishing of Dubliners, three dozen actors all read from this book of short stories by Joyce. In conjunction with the James Joyce Ramble, there is an event called “Take a Walk” to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants biggest book collectors in 19th-century Beijing and clearly an elite member of the society. Based on "Longtu Erlu", the 120-chapter "The Tale of Loyal Heroes and Righteous Gallants" was printed by a movable type at the Juzhen tang (聚珍堂) in 1879, which caused a sensation in Beijing. Unprecedentedly for a print Chinese novel, the oral storyteller's name Shi Yukun appeared on the title page. The book also included 3 prefaces, written respectively by: In a 1883 reprint by Wenya zhai (文雅齋), the novel was renamed to "The Three Heroes and Five Gallants", with the "three heroes" being actually four people,