Podcast appearances and mentions of Daniel Mendelsohn

Bridging the ancient and the urgent, historian James Romm and acclaimed author and translator Daniel Mendelsohn dive into the dramatic story behind Plato and the Tyrant. This is not the Plato of abstract thought, but a man deeply entangled in the brutal politics of his time...a philosopher who sought to reshape power itself. Romm and Mendelsohn explore how Plato's real-world entanglements with tyrants and revolutionaries in Syracuse directly influenced his philosophical masterpiece, Republic, and how the ideal of the philosopher-king emerged from a world teetering on the edge of chaos.With Mendelsohn's signature insight and Romm's vivid storytelling, this event is a dynamic exploration of one of history's greatest minds, revealing a Plato who was ambitious, politically engaged, and profoundly shaped by personal and political crisis. You can find James' recently released book,Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece, here. https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Tyrant-G... Also make sure to check out Daniel's acclaimed new translation of the Odyssey here. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/... Hosted by Anya Leonard. This discussion is brought to you by Classical Wisdom, a site dedicated to bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds. To learn more about Classical Wisdom and sign up for our free newsletter, go to : https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/

This week, AE Stallings immerses herself in Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation of Homer's Odyssey; and Dinah Birch is intrigued by an ambitious novel twenty years in the making. 'The Odyssey', by Homer, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny', by Kiran DesaiProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Well, I mean for starters it still is the greatest first sentence ever,” says Francine Prose in this week's episode of The World in Time. “I mean, three words. A three-word first sentence. I think if you were to ask a kind of range of readers, ‘Can you think of a first sentence?' You know, you probably get ‘It was the best of times, and the worst of times' or ‘the worst of times, and the best of times,' and people would get it backwards. But then you get ‘Call me Ishmael.' Because it establishes this kind of—you know, so much of the book is about authority. About authority, and the lack of authority, and what authority is, and who has it, and what you do with it. And that sentence is just pure authority. Pure narrative authority. ‘Call me Ishmael.' Bingo. It's like, ‘Okay, well, we're going to call you Ishmael.'” This week on the podcast, the Quarterly's editor-at-large Francine Prose returns for an in-depth conversation with Donovan Hohn about Moby Dick's first chapter, “Loomings.” They consider the meanings of the verb to loom, whether Ishmael is likeable or funny, whether the American sermon influenced Melville's oratorical prose, why the antebellum religious press condemned the novel, and what the best medicine might be for “the universal thump.” Earlier episodes in this series: Episode 7 with Daniel Mendelsohn and Episode 8 with Wyatt Mason.

“In a famous episode, he says his name is Nobody, which in a way is obviously a lie,” says writer, scholar, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn in this episode of The World in Time. “But in another way is sort of true because he has become a nobody, right? And another way to describe the sort of narrative arc of The Odyssey is: he has to go from being a nobody and reclaim his identity and be a somebody again. So, the question of the nature of identity—you know, he's been changed by twenty years of aging, by trauma, by terrible suffering, and yet when he gets home, he has to ‘prove,' quote-unquote, that he is the same person who left. And that, I think, raises one of the most fascinating questions of the epic—and this speaks to something we know about from our own lives—which is: is there a part of you that remains the same despite the changes that we undergo in life? And that's the sort of paradox, I think, that's at the center of the poem. Everybody changes in twenty years, and yet you feel the same in many ways. The Odyssey delves into these very profound questions.” This week's episode of The World in Time is the first in a series of episodes about The Sea (Summer 2013). Donovan Hohn speaks with Daniel Mendelsohn about his new translation of The Odyssey, traveling back to antiquity in search of the origins of the Homeric epic. Then, in archival audio from 2013, editorial board member Aidan Flax-Clark interviews Lewis H. Lapham about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick, about Lapham's greenhorn voyages, and about a doomed shipwreck hunt in the early 1960s that Lapham wrote about for The Saturday Evening Post.

Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest surviving works of literature - and yet, somehow, it can also feel like one of the newest. The inventive narrative structure, complex hero, and surprisingly modern themes still feel fresh, thousands of years after the poem's genesis. In this episode, Jacke talks to author and translator Daniel Mendelsohn about his passion for the Odyssey and his efforts to breathe new poetic life into the ancient epic through a vivid new translation. PLUS Jacke announces the official launch of the History of Literature Podcast Tour! Join Jacke and a limited group of travelers as they go on their own epic journey, visiting literary locations in England in partnership with John Shors Travel. Links: Visit the History of Literature Podcast Tour itinerary at John Shors Travel. The Odyssey by Homer, translated with an introduction and notes, by Daniel Mendelsohn An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at gabrielruizbernal.com . Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate . The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DANIEL MENDELSOHN, editor of "NY Times Review of Books" is the new translator of Homer's "ODYSSEY."  Scholar, editor, essayist, translator.

For this live taping of the literary podcast Between the Covers—recorded at Jewish Currents's daylong event on September 15th and presented in partnership with On the Nose—host David Naimon convened a conversation with renowned writers Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli about contesting colonial narratives. Rooted in their long-standing literary practice and in the demands of this moment of genocide, they discuss the vexed meanings of home, how to recover the everydayness of life erased by empire, and what it means to imagine togetherness beyond the nation-state.This episode was produced by David Naimon, with music by Alicia Jo Rabins. Thanks also to Jesse Brenneman for additional editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).Texts Mentioned and Additional Resources:Minor Detail by Adania ShibliA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne BrandCivil Service by Claire SchwartzThe Blue Clerk by Dionne BrandAdania Shibli in conversation with Hisham Matar at the 2024 Hay FestivalAdania Shibli in conversation with Madeleine Thien and Layli Long Soldier at the Barnard Center for Research on Women“Writing Against Tyranny and Toward Liberation,” Dionne Brand“Dionne Brand: Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems,” Between the Covers“Adania Shibli: Minor Detail,” Between the Covers“prologue for now - Gaza,” Dionne Brand, Jewish Currents“Duty,” Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Review of Books“A Lesson in Arabic Grammar by Toni Morrison,” Adania Shibli, Jewish CurrentsInventory by Dionne BrandRecognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad“Isabella Hammad: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative,” Between the...

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Go tell it on the mountain, darlings! Join the queens for a special Breaking Form report on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.If you'd like to support Breaking Form:Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTESIf you don't know about Absolutely Fabulous, which first ran from 1992-95, you're missing out. Catch Edina and Patsy's best moments here. Mona van Duyn taught at Bread Loaf at least once--according to this poster. Check out audio recordings of Bread Loaf readings and lectures here. I can also recommend the reading by Adrian Matejka & Paul Lisicky, both of whom read from work about celebrity icons (it was like a class on how to do that well).The t-slur has been recognized as an offensive slur for at least 10 years, if not more, as this Advocate article about the slur indicates.Daniel Mendelsohn's review ("A Striptease Among Pals") of Hana Yanagihara's A Little Life can be read here (sorry about the paywall!) and the whole dustup gets further press in this Guardian article.For more information about and to apply to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences (there are other conferences in environmental writing and in translation), visit their website here.

Allow Kimberly to point out the intricacies, the nuance, the FACTS of what Akbar is really saying at the end of his insanely great novel. Tune in to hear Kimberly argue a few sides of this coin. She follows Daniel Mendelsohn's advice to treat literature like a social science: look carefully at the DATA. If you're like all the folks on the internet who have real questions about this novel's close, you're in the right place.

An episode from 11/29/23: Tonight, I share two stories from the Shoah, or Holocaust. The first is about the Sonderkommando, those prisoners forced to do the most devastating work in the concentration camps. During a 2015 Fresh Air interview with László Nemes and Géza Röhrig about their 2015 film, Son of Saul, a brief story about an actual Sonderkommando member is told. It remains one of the most overwhelming minutes that I have ever heard. In the second part, I read from Daniel Mendelsohn's 2006 book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. The book is Mendelsohn's attempt to discover what happened to six members of his family who were murdered in the Holocaust, and the section I read from is about the difficulty of truly entering the mind and situation of a sixteen year-old girl, who is rounded up with a thousand other Jews, and murdered. You can support Human Voices Wake Us here, or by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. You can also leave a review at iTunes. Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/support

Closing out our Emmy coverage, today we feature Ken Burns (“Brooklyn Bridge”, “The Civil War”, “Jazz”) and Lynn Novick (“Frank Lloyd Wright”, “Baseball”, “Hemingway”) discussing their thrice-Emmy nominated “The U.S. and the Holocaust”.  As Ken tells us, this PBS series addresses the “Holocaust, one of the low points of humanity and what Americans knew and what they didn't know, what they did, and more importantly, what they didn't do.”   Ken and Lynn first explain why they start with the story of Anne Frank and her family, and how it reveals how we often don't fully understand the American context of such stories.  They speak with Mike about the deep anti-immigrationist and antisemitic feelings of America between the world wars.  They explain in particular how Eugenics was used to buttress the laws severely limiting immigration, especially from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe–the latter being where most of the world's Jews then lived.  They go on to explain how American Eugenics, along with the ideology of Manifest Destiny and even Jim Crow laws influenced the Nazis and gave them a template for their atrocities.  And they discuss some of what Ken calls “the points of light” in this most horrific time:  Some of the Americans–singularly or in organizations–who stepped up to help Jews escape.   Throughout, as the series shows the depths of the Nazi horrors and the failure of the U.S.--with the notable exception of winning the war–to muster a meaningful response, it demonstrates the importance of maintaining what writer Daniel Mendelsohn calls “the particularity” of the stories of those who died and those who survived.   Hidden Gems:  The Better Angels   Follow: @KenBurns on twitter and @kenlburns on Instagram @LynnNovick on twitter and Instagram @topdocspod on Instagram and twitter   The Presenting Sponsor of "Top Docs" is Netflix.

Before the shovels hit the dirt, before a developer gets construction permits, before an MOU is signed, there exists a huge process of project feasibility, planning, and pre-approval. That process is incredibly complex and costly, but a new Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF) has been established to help. Shuang Liu joins Juliet and Erik on this episode to discuss how this might help kick start and expand the pipeline of more sustainable projects, and her broader goals in working at the World Resources Institute.Shuang Liu is the China Finance Director and Acting Director at the Sustainable Finance Center at the World Resources Institute. She leads the Center's work on China finance and the Belt and Road Initiative, and works with governments, private financial institutions, NGOs, and other partners to enhance the regulatory framework and provide enabling conditions to shift China's investment to sustainable finance. She holds a master's degree in environmental and resource economics from University College London and a bachelor's in economics from Peking University.Her article on the Panda Paw Dragon Claw blog is entitled, "Can a Chinese-led multilateral initiative help unlock more sustainable infrastructure in the Global South?"Recommendations:Shuang:An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn (2018)Juliet:Try to bike more in the summer, or pick up any activity that is good for both yourself and the planet!Erik:Outsourcing Repression episode of the Pekingology podcast with Lynette H. Ong and host Jude Blanchette Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China by Lynette H. Ong (2022)

About this Episode Back in the 1990s, Leah Eichler, then a young reporter, interviewed her grandmother extensively about her experiences as an Auschwitz survivor. In this episode, Leah discusses her book-development journey working with coach & TBIHTW host Paul Zakrzewski. If you've been overwhelmed by a book you want to write – but aren't sure where to start – this is the episode for you.Discussed On This Episode:·       The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn·       My uncle often went missing. I worried about the day he wouldn't come back, The Globe and Mail, Oct 8, 2021·       Esoterica Magazine    Important Moments How Leah's interview with her grandmother in the 1990s resulted in the "bubbe tapes" How the book coaching process helped Leah evolve her idea Influence of Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Highlights of Leah's June "roots" trip to Hungary to research her grandmother's story Leah's recent publication successes with an essay about tattoos & intergenerational trauma; and another essay about being in a interracial marriage and competing historical traumas Leah's background as a journalist and its impact on writing her memoir Leah's work as creator and editor of Esoterica MagazineCreditsThis episode was edited and produced by Chérie Newman at Magpie Audio Productions. Theme music is "The Stone Mansion" by BlueDot Productions.     Get full access to The Book I Want to Write at bookiwanttowrite.substack.com/subscribe

"For me Alexandria is a city of nostalgic imagination, the dream of a lost cosmopolitan world. I've mixed the recording with "Voices," a poem by the Greek Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy, read in 1972  by the painter Yiannis Tsarouchis, and lapped two of the city's other languages against it like the waves. The French version is my adaptation; the English one  is by Daniel Mendelsohn. I am still searching for an Arabic translation. The final voice is that of an Egyptian melon seller. The 1972 recording is used by kind permission of Agra Publications and the Yiannis Tsarouchis Foundation." Seaside at Alexandria reimagined by Maria Margaronis.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://thecitylife.org/2023/04/26/elizabeth-peyton-james-fenton-daniel-mendelsohn-and-nicolas-party-join-frick-director-and-curators-in-responding-to-works-from-the-collection/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citylifeorg/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citylifeorg/support

Zu den ergreifendsten Aufnahmen der griechischen Sopranistin Maria Callas gehört ihr Auftritt als »Schlafwandlerin« aus Vincenzo Bellinis Oper in der Einspielung von 1957. Sie singt die Partie der Braut Amina, die nachts umherwandelt, und dadurch des Betrugs an ihrem Verlobten verdächtigt wird. Die Abgründe des schlafwandelnden Menschen waren ein großes Thema des 19. Jahrhunderts. Kürzlich wurde er zur politischen Metapher: Der Historiker Christopher Clark erklärte den Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs damit – keiner habe den Krieg so wirklich gewollt, man sei kollektiv hineingelaufen wie ein Schlafwandler. Seither wird ständig vorm politischen Schlafwandeln gewarnt, aktuell im Zusammenhang mit dem Krieg in der Ukraine. Beschreibt dieser Begriff unsere Epoche? Gast: Dr. Albrecht Plewnia (*1970) ist Linguist. In zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen hat er sich mit Varianten des Deutschen und der Entwicklung der Sprache beschäftigt. Er lehrt und forscht am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, wo der den Programmbereich »Sprache im öffentlichen Raum« leitet. Host: Ralf Schlüter, geb. 1968, lebt als Kulturjournalist in Berlin. Seine Jugend verbrachte er zu etwa gleichen Teilen in Plattenläden, Buchhandlungen und Museen, immer schon mit Hang zur Querverbindung: eine Zeile von Bob Dylan brachte ihn auf den Dichter Ezra Pound, ein Patti-Smith-Plattencover auf die zeitgenössische amerikanische Fotografie. Während seines Literaturstudiums im Berlin der 90er schrieb er für den deutschen Rolling Stone und die Berliner Zeitung nicht nur über Musik. Von 2006 bis 2020 war er Stellvertretender Chefredakteur des Kunstmagazins Art. Seit 2013 moderierte er die Sendung Art Mixtape beim Webradio ByteFM. Seit dem 16. Juni 2021 läuft sein Podcast »Ulysses lesen«, der sich mit dem berühmten Roman von James Joyce beschäftigt. Er ist Mitbegründer von kultur{}botschaft, einer digitalen Strategieberatung für Kulturinstitutionen und Medienhäuser. Im Podcast Zeitgeister erkundet Schlüter, von der Musik ausgehend, den Kosmos der Gegenwartskultur noch einmal neu: auf der Suche nach übersehenen Details und unerzählten Geschichten. SHOWNOTES: Deutsche Übersetzung des Librettos von »La Sonnambula«: https://www.opera-arias.com/bellini/la-sonnambula/libretto/deutsch/ Daniel Mendelsohn in der »New York Times« über Maria Callas: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/arts/music/opera-classical-music-maria-callas.html Informationen zum Schlafwandeln der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin (DGSM): https://www.dgsm.de/fileadmin/dgsm/Arbeitsgruppen/traum/Schlafwandeln_Wie_kann_ich_damit_umgehen.pdf Der Prozess zum Todesfall in England: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/prozess-in-grossbritannien-schlafwandler-erwuergte-ehefrau-a-662003.html Einleitung von Christopher Clarks »Die Schlafwandler«: https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/9783421043597.pdf Kommentar von Jörg Lau zum politischen Schlafwandeln: https://internationalepolitik.de/de/wir-sind-schlafwandler Jürgen Habermas benutzt den Begriff: https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/juergen-habermas-schlafwandeln-am-rande-des-abgrundes-92089736.html Literatur: Christopher Clark: Die Schlafwandler. Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog. DVA München 2013. Philipp Osten: Das Tor zur Seele. Schlaf, Somnambulismus und Hellsehen im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Schöningh Paderborn 2015 Audioproduktion: kultur{}botschaft Mehr über den Podcast gibt‘s auch zu hören bei ByteFM: https://www.byte.fm/sendungen/bytefm-magazin/ Weitere Podcasts der ZEIT-Stiftung: https://www.zeit-stiftung.de/mediathek/videoundpodcast/podcast/

Zu den ergreifendsten Aufnahmen der griechischen Sopranistin Maria Callas gehört ihr Auftritt als »Schlafwandlerin« aus Vincenzo Bellinis Oper in der Einspielung von 1957. Sie singt die Partie der Braut Amina, die nachts umherwandelt, und dadurch des Betrugs an ihrem Verlobten verdächtigt wird. Die Abgründe des schlafwandelnden Menschen waren ein großes Thema des 19. Jahrhunderts. Kürzlich wurde er zur politischen Metapher: Der Historiker Christopher Clark erklärte den Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs damit – keiner habe den Krieg so wirklich gewollt, man sei kollektiv hineingelaufen wie ein Schlafwandler. Seither wird ständig vorm politischen Schlafwandeln gewarnt, aktuell im Zusammenhang mit dem Krieg in der Ukraine. Beschreibt dieser Begriff unsere Epoche? Gast: Dr. Albrecht Plewnia (*1970) ist Linguist. In zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen hat er sich mit Varianten des Deutschen und der Entwicklung der Sprache beschäftigt. Er lehrt und forscht am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim, wo der den Programmbereich »Sprache im öffentlichen Raum« leitet. Host: Ralf Schlüter, geb. 1968, lebt als Kulturjournalist in Berlin. Seine Jugend verbrachte er zu etwa gleichen Teilen in Plattenläden, Buchhandlungen und Museen, immer schon mit Hang zur Querverbindung: eine Zeile von Bob Dylan brachte ihn auf den Dichter Ezra Pound, ein Patti-Smith-Plattencover auf die zeitgenössische amerikanische Fotografie. Während seines Literaturstudiums im Berlin der 90er schrieb er für den deutschen Rolling Stone und die Berliner Zeitung nicht nur über Musik. Von 2006 bis 2020 war er Stellvertretender Chefredakteur des Kunstmagazins Art. Seit 2013 moderierte er die Sendung Art Mixtape beim Webradio ByteFM. Seit dem 16. Juni 2021 läuft sein Podcast »Ulysses lesen«, der sich mit dem berühmten Roman von James Joyce beschäftigt. Er ist Mitbegründer von kultur{}botschaft, einer digitalen Strategieberatung für Kulturinstitutionen und Medienhäuser. Im Podcast Zeitgeister erkundet Schlüter, von der Musik ausgehend, den Kosmos der Gegenwartskultur noch einmal neu: auf der Suche nach übersehenen Details und unerzählten Geschichten. SHOWNOTES: Deutsche Übersetzung des Librettos von »La Sonnambula«: https://www.opera-arias.com/bellini/la-sonnambula/libretto/deutsch/ Daniel Mendelsohn in der »New York Times« über Maria Callas: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/arts/music/opera-classical-music-maria-callas.html Informationen zum Schlafwandeln der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin (DGSM): https://www.dgsm.de/fileadmin/dgsm/Arbeitsgruppen/traum/Schlafwandeln_Wie_kann_ich_damit_umgehen.pdf Der Prozess zum Todesfall in England: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/prozess-in-grossbritannien-schlafwandler-erwuergte-ehefrau-a-662003.html Einleitung von Christopher Clarks »Die Schlafwandler«: https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/9783421043597.pdf Kommentar von Jörg Lau zum politischen Schlafwandeln: https://internationalepolitik.de/de/wir-sind-schlafwandler Jürgen Habermas benutzt den Begriff: https://www.fr.de/kultur/gesellschaft/juergen-habermas-schlafwandeln-am-rande-des-abgrundes-92089736.html Literatur: Christopher Clark: Die Schlafwandler. Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog. DVA München 2013. Philipp Osten: Das Tor zur Seele. Schlaf, Somnambulismus und Hellsehen im frühen 19. Jahrhundert. Schöningh Paderborn 2015 Audioproduktion: kultur{}botschaft Mehr über den Podcast gibt‘s auch zu hören bei ByteFM: https://www.byte.fm/sendungen/bytefm-magazin/ Weitere Podcasts der ZEIT-Stiftung: https://www.zeit-stiftung.de/mediathek/videoundpodcast/podcast/

In this episode: It's the personal, specific and unique stories that make readers feel something. Small stories are so powerful and touch people's hearts, and that's why we read - to feel.After reading Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost: A search for Six of Six Million for the third time, Edward di Gangi knew he had to at least try to find his birth mother and discover where and who he came from.This led him on a voyage of discovery. His birth mother turned out to be Genevieve Knorowski, a very successful ice-dancer in the 1940s and 1950s, when ice-dancing was at the height of its popularity.Di Gangi intertwines a homage to his mother's success with his own research journey and how it shaped his understanding of what mothers go through when they make the difficult decision to give their child up for adoption.The Gift Best Given is a story of love and drama against a backdrop of 1940s glamour.Links:www.digangiauthor.comEdward Di Gangi • Instagram photos and videosThe Gift Best Given, Edward di GangiThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel MendelsohnLine Editing Made Simple Kick-start your editing for free!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

In this episode of 92NY Talks, award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein discuss their PBS documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust.  The filmmakers are joined by Daniel Mendelsohn, bestselling author of The Lost and a descendant of Holocaust victims, who is also featured in the film, and moderator Kara Swisher, co-host of the Pivot podcast. The conversation was recorded on September 14, 2022 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

Hvordan former verden rundt oss historiene vi forteller om den? Det er et av de sentrale spørsmålene Daniel Mendelsohn utforsker i sin siste bok, som nå er ute på norsk i Christian Rugstads oversettelse.I Tre ringer tar Mendelsohn for seg tre forfattere som alle skrev sine hovedverker i eksil: Erich Auerbach, som flyktet fra Hitlers Tyskland; François Fénelon, som ble forvist til Cambrai av kong Ludvig XIV; og W. G. Sebald, som levde i selvvalgt eksil i England. Hvilken betydning hadde eksilet for skrivingen?Mendelsohn tar leseren med på en reise gjennom Europas kulturhistorie, og inn i hans eget tunge arbeid med to av hans tidligere bøker: Forsvunnet, der han følger sine familiemedlemmers skjebne i holocaust, og memoarboka En odyssé. En far, en sønn og et epos, som beskriver farens siste leveår.Daniel Mendelsohn er professor i klassisk litteratur, en anerkjent kritiker og forfatter av en rekke prisbelønte bøker. Opprinnelig skulle han besøkt Litteraturhust i august, men reisen ble utsatt på grunn av pandemien. Endelig kan han møte professor i kulturhistorie ved Universitetet i Oslo, Helge Jordheim, til samtale på Litteraturhuset. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Psychiater Dirk De Wachter stelt ‘Een Odyssee' van de Amerikaanse schrijver Daniel Mendelsohn voor in onze podcast Letteren, een boek dat hij van zijn zoon kreeg toen hij op zijn ziekbed lag.  ‘Een Odyssee' gaat over de relatie tussen een vader en een zoon. Dirk De Wachter en zijn zoon lazen het gelijktijdig en praatten dan over het boek. Hij praat over ‘Een Odyssee' en over veel meer in deze aflevering van Letteren.  Deze zomer hebben we vier afleveringen van Letteren, waarin Guinevere Claeys praat met een bekende lezer. U kan de hele reeks nu al beluisteren in de app DS Podcast (zoek op 'Letteren') of op eender welk ander podcastplatform.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Psychiater Dirk De Wachter stelt ‘Een Odyssee' van de Amerikaanse schrijver Daniel Mendelsohn voor, een boek dat hij van zijn zoon kreeg toen De Wachter op zijn ziekbed lag. Credits op standaard.be/podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel Mendelsohn's latest book you could say is about digression and about ring composition, a form of storytelling with digression at its heart. And yet this book, about digression, is not only his shortest and most concise, a mere 112 pages, but also somehow contains all the concerns of his previous books and much more, […] The post Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate appeared first on Tin House.

Today Claire talks about a new book she's discovered by Daniel Mendelsohn. It's called 'Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate".

La vida está llena de viajes y es un viaje en si misma. No nos referimos únicamente a los grandes viajes, que planeamos durante años, sino también a aquellos más pequeños, de un par de días a algún lugar cercano, que le dan aire a nuestra mente, a nuestro cuerpo y sobre todo a la rutina. Este episodio no es una colección de los destinos que hemos visitado sino una reflexión de lo que significa viajar para nosotras, de cómo nos gusta hacerlo, de los retos, de lo que aporta a nuestra vida y también del viaje más importante de todo: el que hacemos a nuestro interior. También es un episodio lleno de referencias, bibliográficas, audiovisuales y de canciones sobre una de las experiencias de vida más importantes para el ser humano: viajar. Libros “Committed”, Elizabeth Gilbert. “Eat, Pray, Love”, Elizabeth Gilbert. “Lacronica”, Martín Caparrós. “Viven. La tragedia de Los Andes”. Piers Paul Read. “La odisea”. Homero. “Una odisea. Un padre, un hijo y una epopeya”, Daniel Mendelsohn. Música “Tren al sur”, Los Prisioneros. “Roam”, The B-52's. “Playa azul”, Los Amigos Invisibles. Televisión “Modern Love”. Temporada 2. Episodio 3: “Extraños en un tren”. Amazon Prime. “Gilmore Girl. A year in the life”. Netflix. “3 caminos”. Amazon Prime. Cine “Perdidos en Tokio” “Y tu mamá también”. “Camino salvaje”. “Alma salvaje”. “Thelma y Louise”. “El camino”. “Siete años en el Tíbet”. “Los principios del cuidado”. Grupo de Telegram Nuestro grupo de Telegram, para construir comunidad alrededor de este podcast completamente gratis. Para unirte haz clic en el link: https://t.me/joinchat/M1BzCR3IAqy81OkjKXqYdA Se trata de un espacio de valor y de crecimiento en comunidad. Será nuestra pequeña tribu de apoyo, un espacio de coraje colectivo. Todas las que se unan podrán acceder a: • Audios exclusivos: respondiendo preguntas, • Reseñando libros, películas, series y todo el contenido que consumimos y creemos puede ser de valor para ustedes. • Zoom exclusivos solo para integrantes de esta comunidad • Conversación o discusión de un tema en específico de interés para todas Si quieres sugerirnos un tema , contarnos tus historias o simplemente saludarnos puedes hacerlo en podemosvivirestahistoria@gmail.com Suscríbete, déjanos un comentario y comparte con tus amigas ¿Dónde nos puedes encontrar? En nuestra redes sociales: • Carla Candia Casado es @agobiosdemadre • Daniela Kammoun es @danikammoun y @projectglamm

The author explores how physician wellness concepts have changed over time, factors affecting physician well-being, interventions, and the application of quality improvement methods to guide future directions. Read the accompanying article to this podcast: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/medu.14671

Daniel Mendelsohn "is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator. Born in New York City in 1960, he received degrees in Classics from the University of Virginia and Princeton. After completing his Ph.D. he moved to New York City, where he began freelance writing full time; since 1991 he has been a prolific contributor of essays, reviews, and articles to many publications, most frequently The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books." We met via Zoom to discuss the role of the literary critic and how Daniel performs it. We talk about who he is {okay, just part of who he is), what he does, how he does it, and why it's important; about how the critic, by looking behind our reactions, helps us to better understand and appreciate the meaning and significance of a work of art; about critics expressing the intangible and ineffable; the distinction between criticism and opinion; criticism as a service industry; disagreeing with critics; criticism as metaphor; criticism as storytelling; communities of intelligent people; and how really mind-blowing it is that we're all kicking stones around here on a planet that's spinning at some incredible speed moving through a gigantic space that seems devoid of meaning, and we don't know why. Which is why, of course, narrative is so important. It stops us from being scared shitless all of the time. Criticism helps us to figure out how narrative does this. This, and much more.    

Daniel Mendelsohns siste bok, Tre Ringer, handler om hvordan vi forteller historier. Mendelsohn mener at skillet mellom romaner og sakprosa er kunstig og at den som er en god historieforteller godt kan skrive sakprosa. Men en historie er også et sterkt virkemiddel i en demagog eller populist sine hender, noe særlig de siste fem årene har vist i hans hjemland USA.

In den Jahren von Trump und Brexit bis Corona-Krise und Klimakatastrophe haben sich viele vom chaotischen Zeitgeschehen und den sich türmenden, fast unlösbar scheinenden Herausforderungen der Zukunft schwer gestresste Menschen geistig auf ganz andere Zeiten zurückgezogen: Die Beschäftigung mit antiken Stoffen und Themen boomt, die alten Griechen und Römer sind beispielsweise zum Sujet von millionenfach heruntergeladenen Podcasts geworden, neue extrem populäre Bestsellerbücher vermitteln von frischen feministischen Lesarten der klassischen hellenischen Mythen bis hin zu neuen Thesen über den Untergang des Römischen Reiches – Spoiler Alert: Klimawandel! – das komplexe Erbe dieser Ahnen der europäischen Zivilisation auch einer jungen Generation, die sich nicht mit der angestaubten Pädagogik aus dem Lateinunterricht begnügen muss. Mit dem promovierten Altphilologen, Bestseller-Autor, Autor beim New Yorker und Mitglied der Chefredaktion des New York Review of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn, haben wir den Mann zu Gast, der sich wie kein Zweiter darauf versteht, in brillanten Essays die uns oft so fern und verloren scheinende Antike mit einem Ruck relevant für die Gegenwart zu machen – From the Greeks to Game of Thrones ist denn auch seine neueste Essaysammlung untertitelt. Mendelsohn gewann rund 20 Preise für seine Bücher, darunter für sein Memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, aus dem er als unser Gast 2019 in der Archäologischen Sammlung Freiburg las. Deren Kurator, der Honorarprofessor für Klassische Archäologie an der Uni Freiburg und Veteran langjähriger Pompeji-Ausgrabungen, Jens-Arne Dickmann, bestreitet den zweiten Teil dieser vierten Folge von „Carl & Company“. Wir erkunden mit beiden Experten, warum die Antike für uns moderne Nachgeborene immer noch topaktuell ist – und wieso ihre Kultur uns mehr denn je fasziniert. Shownotes: "Ecstasy and Terror: From The Greeks to Game of Thrones" by Daniel Mendelsohn "The Names" by Don DeLillo "Pandora's Jar" by Natalie Haynes "The Women of Troy" by Pat Barker "Circe" by Madeline Miller "Kassandra" by Christa Wolf "The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire" by Kyle Harper Fall of Civilizations Podcast Moderation & Redaktion: René Freudenthal Produktion & Mitarbeit: Hanna Langreder Original-Logo zum Podcast: Simon Krause Original-Musik zum Podcast: Edward Fernbach

In an age of celebrity endorsements, book-club picks and Amazon reviews, what is the state of once-vital literary criticism? How has the importance of robust and informed evaluation changed in an ever-crowded publishing market and an online sphere where everyone is potentially a critic? In this two-part series, Sydney Review of Books editor Catriona Menzies-Pike interviews four renowned critics about the future of literary criticism. In this episode, Catriona speaks with bestselling author, critic and New York Review of Books Editor-at-Large Daniel Mendelsohn and winner of the Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award, Michael Sun.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oliver Sears discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Oliver Sears is a London-born Dublin-based art dealer & gallery owner. He is son of a Holocaust survivor & founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. Formerly a trustee of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, he is a frequent contributor to radio and newspapers including RTÉ and The Irish Times. He tells his family story ‘The Objects of Love' through a collection of precious objects, documents and photographs, powerful mementoes that survived the war and describe individual lives under Nazi occupation. This was presented for the 2019 annual Kristallnacht lecture at Trinity College Dublin. In collaboration with Trinity College Dublin and Holocaust Awareness Ireland, Oliver was in conversation with both Lenny Abrahamson and Daniel Mendelsohn in two separate events in the series Why Talk About the Holocaust? Derek Mahon https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nz1m/derek-mahon-the-poetry-nonsense The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEorqJCQ2k The piece written just before the really famous one. Three extraordinary pieces of music: Mozart Piano Concerto 20, the first aria of the Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute and Beethoven Piano Concerto 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71AgofmDSjs Krowki https://ifood.tv/european/krowki/about Giorgio Perlasca https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-giorgio-perlasca-1541233.html Helen Frankenthaler https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/helen-frankenthaler-1114 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

The Sacred Band of Thebes, comprised entirely of gay male lovers, was Ancient Greece's original response to the gays in the military question. What was that like? How did it function? And what was its lasting legacy? That's what we're going to find out today, just in time for Pride Month. Here to help us do it is classicist James Romm, author of The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom. By the way, the New Yorker article referenced in the episode is "Ancient Greece's Army of Lovers" by Daniel Mendelsohn. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg and get a hand-drawn portrait. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.

The Sacred Band of Thebes, comprised entirely of gay male lovers, was Ancient Greece's original response to the gays in the military question. What was that like? How did it function? And what was its lasting legacy? That's what we're going to find out today, just in time for Pride Month. Here to help us do it is classicist James Romm, author of The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom. By the way, the New Yorker article referenced in the episode is "Ancient Greece's Army of Lovers" by Daniel Mendelsohn. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg and get a hand-drawn portrait. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Music and Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Additional credits, references, and more at www.deadideas.net.

Thursday, 13 May 2021, 6 – 7pm A public event organized by Holocaust Awareness Ireland and the Herzog Centre at Trinity College Dublin, in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. "Why Talk About The Holocaust?" is the second event in this series. Daniel Mendelsohn author of the internationally bestselling Holocaust family saga, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million will be in conversation with Oliver Sears, moderated by Zuleika Rodgers. Daniel Mendelsohn is an award-winning memoirist, critic, essayist and translator. A longtime contributor to the New Yorker and New York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large, he has also been a columnist on books, film, TV, and culture for BBC Culture, New York, Harpers, and the New York Times Book Review. His books include the memoirs An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017), the internationally bestselling Holocaust family saga The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), a translation of the Modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and three collections of essays, most recently Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (2019). His tenth book, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate, published in September, 2020, was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. Mr. Mendelsohn is the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable trust that supports nonfiction writing, and teaches literature at Bard College. Oliver Sears is a London-born, Dublin-based art dealer & gallery owner. He is the son of a Holocaust survivor & founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. Formerly a trustee of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, he is a frequent contributor to radio and newspapers including RTÉ and The Irish Times. He tells his family story ‘The Objects of Love' through a collection of precious objects, documents and photographs, powerful mementoes that survived the war and describe individual lives under Nazi occupation. This was presented for the 2019 annual Kristallnacht lecture at Trinity College Dublin. Zuleika Rodgers is Associate Professor in Jewish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she is the Director of the Herzog Centre for Jewish and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures and is currently Head of Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. She has been involved in Holocaust awareness and education and is the Academic Director of the Certificate in Holocaust Education.

Ed Di Gangi was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 67, a visit to a cemetery where members of his adoptive mother's family were buried and a story by Daniel Mendelsohn stirred his interest. ​ Over the past three years, through extensive archival research and DNA testing, Ed has peeled back the layers of his once unknown family. It turned out his birth mother was not who he thought she was at all. ​ You don't want to miss this remarkable story. Click here to download a transcript for this episode. Relevant Links Ed's Website The Gift Best Given: A Memoir* by Ed Di Gangi Connect with Ed on Instagram Watch Ed's Birth Mom Ice Skate The Lost* by Daniel Mendelsohn *This is an affiliate link

Ed Di Gangi was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 67, a visit to a cemetery where members of his adoptive mother's family were buried and a story by Daniel Mendelsohn stirred his interest. ​ Over the past three years, through extensive archival research and DNA testing, Ed has peeled back the layers of his once unknown family. It turned out his birth mother was not who he thought she was at all. ​ You don't want to miss this remarkable story. Click here to download a transcript for this episode. Relevant Links Ed's Website The Gift Best Given: A Memoir* by Ed Di Gangi Connect with Ed on Instagram Watch Ed's Birth Mom Ice Skate The Lost* by Daniel Mendelsohn *This is an affiliate link

大家好，欢迎收听普通读者。在每一次录节目前后，我们三个主播都会闲聊一下最近读了什么书，在读什么。这一期我们录下了某一次我们的闲聊，大家可以随便听听。也欢迎告诉我们你们正在读什么书？最近有什么书值得推荐。 提到的书和时间点： 1:00 读什么书会觉得酣畅淋漓？ 提到的书： 《克拉拉与太阳》，石黑一雄 “A Swim in a Pond In the Rain”, by Gorge Sanders 《被殺了三次的女孩》，清水潔 “An Odyssey : A Father, a Son and an Epic”, by Daniel Mendelsohn 《二十首情诗与绝望的歌》聂鲁达 “Spring”, by Ali Smith 2:30 从《洛丽塔》聊到对文学作品中的厌女倾向的容忍程度 提到的书： “Lolita”, by Vladimir Nabokov “Stoner”, by John Williams 《情人》，杜拉斯 “My Dark Vanessa”, by Kate Elizabeth Russell 8:43 吐槽《关于那个人的备忘录》，小林泰三 9:38 “D: A Tale of Two Worlds”, Michel Faber *注：此处H把“Faber” 讲成了“Fiber”，抱歉。。 12:26 从《Terminal Borden: Stories》聊到女权主义乌托邦科幻小说，到吐槽为什么到了未来女人还要生孩子 提到的书： “Terminal Boredom: Stories”, by Izumi Suzuki (Polly Barton等多人翻译成英文) “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Herland”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 《十二国记》小野不由美 《使女的故事》，玛格丽特·阿特伍德 23:17 《黑魔法手帖》涩泽龙彦，过于中二。 25:10 从《漫长的星期六》到吐槽文学批评，到喜欢的文学研究学者： 《漫长的星期六》，乔治•斯坦纳，洛尔•阿德勒 《秋水堂论金瓶梅》，田晓菲 《留白》，田晓菲 《追忆》，宇文所安 30:45 “Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass” by Lana Del Rey 一定要听有声书 31:15 “I Want My Hat Back”, by Jon Klassen 的结局是什么鬼？ 34:35 《猫咪带你去观星》斯图尔特•阿特金森（著）， 布兰登•卡尼（绘） 影音： 《记忆碎片》 《男人要自爱》 “The Runaway Bunny” 收听和订阅渠道： 墙内：小宇宙App，喜马拉雅，网易云“普通-读者” 墙外：Apple Podcast, Anchor，Spotify，Pocket Casts，Google Podcast，Breaker， Radiopublic等等 电邮：commonreader@protonmail.com 微博： 普通读者播客 欢迎关注普通读者的豆瓣： 豆瓣“普通读者播客”：https://www.douban.com/people/commonreaders/ 片头音乐credit： Flipper's Guitar - 恋とマシンガン- Young, Alive, in Love - 片尾音乐credit: Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby

This episode of The Quarantine Tapes is a very special episode bringing together clips from the past one year of the podcast. With these clips, join us in returning to some of the most thoughtful, interesting, and moving moments from this chronicle of our past year in quarantine. We hear from Werner Herzog, Naveen Kishore, and Rosanne Cash on their hopes and fears in the early days of this crisis, and from Patton Oswalt, Joy Harjo, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., and many more over the course of the past year. These luminous voices speak to the despair of the beginning of the pandemic and look forward with hope to what we might be able to change when we come out of this moment. These clips address the many topics that have been on our minds this past year, from the books that kept us company to the moment the world turned off last March to the reckoning of last summer’s protests. The reflections from our past guests range from moving to funny to heartfelt in this unique look back at one year of The Quarantine Tapes.---------Part 1 Symphony of voices features the following Quarantine Tapes Guests: Pico Iyer, Elif Shafak, Daniel Mendelsohn, Simon Critchley, Julian Sands, Henry Rollins, Lynette Wallworth, Naomi Shihab Nye, Werner Herzog, Maira Kalman, Joy Harjo, Romila Thapar, Lynell George, Sister Judy Vaughn, Naveen Kishore, Rosanne Cash, Baz Dreisinger, Kwame Dawes, Patton Oswalt, Jackie Goldberg, Viet Thanh Ngyuen, Isabella Rossellini, Mona Eltahawy, Howard Bryant, James McBride, “SARAH”, Sunita Puri, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

The Aeneid has a reputation: it’s the founding myth of Rome, used down the centuries to justify conquest, colonization, and the expansion of empire the world over. Although Virgil includes many voices in his epic, Aeneas’s is the one that tends to be remembered—and celebrated, especially by his putative descendant, the Emperor Augustus. But with her new translation of The Aeneid, classicist Shadi Bartsch reveals the many ways that Virgil undermines both the glory of Aeneas and the authority of collective memory, down to the very verb used to begin and end the poem. Bartsch joins us on the podcast to untangle how the story of Aeneas is actually many stories, all in conversation with one another. Go beyond the episode:Shadi Bartsch’s translation of The AeneidRead her essay in The Washington Post, “Why I won’t surrender the classics to the far right”Daniel Mendelsohn’s essay “Lost Classics” reminds us that the study of ancient texts is the study of things that are no longer: lives, songs, stories, poems, memories, and the ordinary people who preserved their memoryIn case you missed it: listen to our interview with historian Kyle Harper on the discomforting parallels between our current moment and the end of RomeTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Aeneid has a reputation: it’s the founding myth of Rome, used down the centuries to justify conquest, colonization, and the expansion of empire the world over. Although Virgil includes many voices in his epic, Aeneas’s is the one that tends to be remembered—and celebrated, especially by his putative descendant, the Emperor Augustus. But with her new translation of The Aeneid, classicist Shadi Bartsch reveals the many ways that Virgil undermines both the glory of Aeneas and the authority of collective memory, down to the very verb used to begin and end the poem. Bartsch joins us on the podcast to untangle how the story of Aeneas is actually many stories, all in conversation with one another. Go beyond the episode:Shadi Bartsch’s translation of The AeneidRead her essay in The Washington Post, “Why I won’t surrender the classics to the far right”Daniel Mendelsohn’s essay “Lost Classics” reminds us that the study of ancient texts is the study of things that are no longer: lives, songs, stories, poems, memories, and the ordinary people who preserved their memoryIn case you missed it: listen to our interview with historian Kyle Harper on the discomforting parallels between our current moment and the end of RomeTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A master of popular criticism, The New York Times have christened Daniel Mendelsohn “our most irresistible literary critic”. In The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones, Daniel uses the ancient past as a lens to examine modern culture in a collection of essays that traverse everything from Sappho’s sexuality and the feminism that can be found in Game of Thrones, to the unexpected connections between Homer and robots. Daniel is joined by Tali Lavi. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

durée : 00:42:23 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Marie Richeux, Jeanne Aléos, Romain de Becdelievre - Ce soir, rencontre avec l’écrivain et critique littéraire américain Daniel Mendelsohn à l’occasion de la parution de son dernier livre "Trois anneaux, un conte d’exils" aux éditions Flammarion. - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis, Lise-Marie Barré - invités : Daniel Mendelsohn écrivain et critique américain, helléniste et francophile

durée : 00:42:23 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Marie Richeux, Jeanne Aléos, Romain de Becdelievre - Ce soir, rencontre avec l’écrivain et critique littéraire américain Daniel Mendelsohn à l’occasion de la parution de son dernier livre "Trois anneaux, un conte d’exils" aux éditions Flammarion. - réalisation : Jean-Christophe Francis, Lise-Marie Barré - invités : Daniel Mendelsohn écrivain et critique américain, helléniste et francophile

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When Daniel Mendelsohn signed up for a Mediterranean cruise to Ithaca with his aging father, neither of them could have predicted what would happen next

On today's show, I talk with Daniel Mendelsohn, Professor of Classics at Bard College and the author of “An Odyssey: A Father, A son and an Epic.” Mendelsohn has a very unique and personal story about his experience teaching the Odyssey. IN 2011, his eighty-one year old father enrolled in his seminar course about the Odyseey, which initiates a father-son adventure that is both emotionally and intellectually stunning. In this episode we talk about how the Odyssey has the power to reveal hidden truths about ourselves and offers ancient advice and wisdom on how to live the good life.IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:What is the Odyssey and why is it still relevant today?What does the Odyssey have to teach us about life, family, relationships?What is the nature of identity?How do we truly know someone?What is the role of storytelling in the Good Life?What can we learn about ourselves and others by reading the Odyssey?HELP US OUT!Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!BOOKS AND RESOURCESAn Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel MendelsohnCapital One. This is Banking Reimagined.CONNECT WITH DANIEL MENDELSOHNDaniel's WebsiteDaniel's Twitter AccountEmail: mail@danielmendelsohn.comGET IN TOUCH WITH SEAN MURRAYSean's Twitter AccountSean's LinkedIn AccountEmail: Sean@TheInvestorsPodcast.comWebsite: RealTime Performance, Inc.Weekly Newsletter: RealTime Performance NewsletterRead the full transcript and show notes on: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/the-good-life/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd to explore translating, rewriting and using Homer's epic work to frame a memoir. Emily Wilson has published a new translation of The Odyssey Daniel Mendelsohn has written An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An Epic Karen McCarthy Woolf wrote Nightshift as part of a BBC Radio 4's Odyssey Project which commissioned ten writers to create a contemporary response. Her most recent collection is called Seasonal Disturbances. Amit Chaudhuri has written a novel called Odysseus Abroad which draws on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Odyssey.

The BookBully goes a bit crazy talking about new books she's read or is looking forward to reading. Let's just say her eyes are bigger than her reading capacity! BOOK LIST FOR THIS EPISODE: My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti   Brewster by Mark Slouka   The Secret History by Donna Tartt   The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Mathews (yes, only one "t")   The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens   Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan   Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo   Commonwealth by Ann Patchett   Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi   Mary and O'Neil by Justin Cronin   A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton   The Turner House by Angela Flournoy   Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward   The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas   The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil   The New Valley by Josh Weil   Don't I Know You by Marni Jackson   The Good Lord Bird by James McBride   Five-Carat Soul by James McBride   Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides   Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks   The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash   The Good People by Hannah Kent   Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan   The Power by Naomi Alderman   Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia   Here in Berlin by Cristina Garcia   Dying: A Memoir by Cory Taylor   The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs   A Secret Sisterhood by Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney   What She Ate by Laura Shapiro   Ranger Games by Ben Blum   An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn   The Child Finder by Rene Tenfold   The Party by Elizabeth Day   White Bodies by Jane Robins   The Smack by Richard Lange   Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent   Ferocity by Nicola Lagioia   Me Before You by JoJo Moyes   Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman   Paradise City by Elizabeth Day   Sourdough by Robin Sloan   Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan   Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple   Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini   Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini   The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis   The Address by Fiona Davis   One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus   The Vengeance of Mothers by Jim Fergus   The Revolution of the Moon by Andrea Camilleri   The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott   The Twelve-Mile Straight by Eleanor Henderson   Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson