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Latest podcast episodes about Daniel Mendelsohn

The Poet and The Poem
Daniel Mendelsohn

The Poet and The Poem

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 31:56


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

On the Nose
"Between the Covers" Live: Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli

On the Nose

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 68:22


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...

Winston
127 - Quando Atene perse sé stessa

Winston

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 5:48


Uno spettacolo teatrale e un libro di Daniel Mendelsohn descrivono le atrocità commesse dagli Ateniesi contro i Meli. Una rilettura di TucidideSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

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.

The Foxed Page
Lecture 63b: Akbar's MARTYR! (the ENDING) >> If you think you fully understood the nuance of Kaveh Akbar's (possible double) ending, you might be crazy.

The Foxed Page

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2024 54:21


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.

Human Voices Wake Us
The Most Brutal Scenes

Human Voices Wake Us

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2023 30:03


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

Top Docs:  Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers
”The U.S. and the Holocaust” with Ken Burns & Lynn Novick

Top Docs: Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 39:42


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.

The Belt and Road Podcast
Funding the Pre-Project Pipeline: China's New MCDF with Shuang Liu

The Belt and Road Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 30:21


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)

The Book I HAD to Write
S2, Ep 6: How Do You Start Your (Holocaust) Memoir? with Leah Eichler

The Book I HAD to Write

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2023 31:10


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

Cities and Memory - remixing the sounds of the world

"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.

City Life Org
Elizabeth Peyton, James Fenton, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Nicolas Party Join Frick Director and Curators in Responding to Works from the Collection

City Life Org

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2023 11:57


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

Zeitgeister
Maria Callas singt Bellinis »Schlafwandlerin«: Klingt so unsere Epoche?

Zeitgeister

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2023 33:05


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/

ZEIT-Stiftung - Alle Podcasts
Maria Callas singt Bellinis »Schlafwandlerin«: Klingt so unsere Epoche?

ZEIT-Stiftung - Alle Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2023 33:05


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/

Turning Readers Into Writers
127 - Researching Your Family Tree, with Edward Di Gangi

Turning Readers Into Writers

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2022 45:22


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

92Y Talks
The U.S. and the Holocaust with Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein, and Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Kara Swisher

92Y Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 73:07


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.

Litteraturhusets podkast
Å skrive i eksil. Daniel Mendelsohn og Helge Jordheim

Litteraturhusets podkast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2022 60:42


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.

DS Vandaag
Bonus. Letteren: Hoe literatuur Dirk De Wachter hielp op zijn ziekbed

DS Vandaag

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2022 37:25


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.

DS Letteren
Dirk De Wachter over 'Een Odyssee' van Daniel Mendelsohn

DS Letteren

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2022 37:25


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.

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2022 144:06


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.

RNZ: Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan
Book Critic: Claire Mabey

RNZ: Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 8:35


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".

Podemos vivir esta historia
T4. E31. Podemos vivir esta historia. Los viajes

Podemos vivir esta historia

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 58:54


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

Medical Education Podcasts
Self in medicine: Determinants of physician well-being and future directions in improving wellness - Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn

Medical Education Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2022 16:51


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

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Role of the Critic

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2021 62:57


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.    

Liberal Halvtime
Ep. 269: Forfatter Daniel Mendelsohn om fortellingens kraft

Liberal Halvtime

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2021 53:35


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.

Carl & Company – Der transatlantische Podcast
Bestseller-Essayist & „New Yorker“-Autor Daniel Mendelsohn & was die klassische Antike den modernen Krisenzeiten zu sagen hat

Carl & Company – Der transatlantische Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2021 59:53


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

Sydney Writers' Festival
Critical Condition: Daniel Mendelsohn & Michael Sun

Sydney Writers' Festival

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2021 40:53


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.

Better Known
Oliver Sears

Better Known

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2021 30:09


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 History of Sex
OG Gays in the Military: Ancient Greece's Sacred Band of Thebes: An Interview with James Romm

The History of Sex

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 49:06


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.

Dead Ideas: The History of Extinct Thoughts and Practices
The All-Gay Army: Ancient Greece’s Sacred Band of Thebes: An Interview with James Romm

Dead Ideas: The History of Extinct Thoughts and Practices

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021


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.

Trinity Long Room Hub
TLRH and the Herzog Centre | Why Talk About The Holocaust?

Trinity Long Room Hub

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 62:57


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.

The Adoption Connection | a podcast by and for adoptive parents
#129: An Adoptee's Remarkable Search with Ed Di Gangi

The Adoption Connection | a podcast by and for adoptive parents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 2617:30


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

The Adoption Connection | a podcast by and for adoptive parents
#129: An Adoptee’s Remarkable Search with Ed Di Gangi

The Adoption Connection | a podcast by and for adoptive parents

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 43:37


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

普通读者
Ep 24. 番外篇:普通读者们的碎碎念

普通读者

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 38:11


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

The Quarantine Tapes
The Quarantine Tapes: A Symphony Of Voices Part 1

The Quarantine Tapes

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2021 32:36


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.

Smarty Pants
#168: The Many Faces of Aeneas

Smarty Pants

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 25:10


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.

Smarty Pants
#168: The Many Faces of Aeneas

Smarty Pants

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 25:10


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.

Sydney Writers' Festival
Daniel Mendelsohn: The Bad Boy of Athens

Sydney Writers' Festival

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2020 58:09


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.

Par les temps qui courent
Daniel Mendelsohn : "Je crois au pouvoir de restauration de la littérature"

Par les temps qui courent

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2020 42:23


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

trois xd litt romain pouvoir crois restauration flammarion mendelsohn daniel mendelsohn jean christophe francis marie richeux lise marie barr jeanne al
Culture en direct
Daniel Mendelsohn : "Je crois au pouvoir de restauration de la littérature"

Culture en direct

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2020 42:23


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

trois xd litt romain pouvoir crois restauration flammarion mendelsohn daniel mendelsohn jean christophe francis marie richeux lise marie barr jeanne al
Les matins
Que peut notre politique de renseignement ? Benjamin Oudet / Entretien avec Daniel Mendelsohn

Les matins

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 121:29


durée : 02:01:29 - Les Matins - par : Guillaume Erner - . - réalisation : Vivien Demeyère

Books & Ideas Audio
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Books & Ideas Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020 74:21


Three Freeman’s contributors from three different genres, born on three different continents, talk about the way love makes a story, a poem, and the shape of a memoir. Mieko Kawakami is the award winning author of Breasts & Eggs, her North American debut, and is declared by Haruki Murakami as his favorite new Japanese novelist; Daniel Mendelsohn is the National Book Critics Circle Award winning author of The Lost, translator of poems of Cavafy, and his latest genre bending tale, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate, and Valzynha Mort is a poet and translator and author of four books. Born in Belarus, she now lives in Ithaca, New York. Her latest collection is Music for the Dead and Resurrected. Join Festival favourite John Freeman as he leads a discussion on a topic we could all use a little more of in our lives: love.

Paraíso Perdido
Uma Odisseia, Daniel Mendelsohn

Paraíso Perdido

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 5:50


Les matinales
Invité de Sandrine Sebbane : Daniel Mendelsohn

Les matinales

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2020


Les matinales, émission présentée par Sandrine Sebbane qui reçoit Daniel Mendelsohn pour son livre « Trois anneaux – un conte d’exil » paru aux éditions Flammarion   À propos du livre : « Trois anneaux – un conte d’exil » paru aux Éditions Flammarion   Dans ce récit aux mille tours, Daniel Mendelsohn explore les correspondances mystérieuses entre le hasard qui régit nos existences et l'art des récits que nous en formons. Trois anneaux commence par raconter l'histoire de trois écrivains en exil qui se sont tournés vers les classiques du passé pour créer leurs propres chef-d'oeuvres. Erich Auerbach, le philologue juif qui fuit l'Allemagne nazie pour écrire sa grande étude de la littérature européenne, Mimésis, à Istanbul. François Fénelon, l'évêque du XVIIe siècle, auteur d une merveilleuse suite de l'Odyssée, Les Aventures de Télémaque, best-seller de son époque, qui lui valut le bannissement. Et l'écrivain allemand W.G. Sebald, qui s'exila en Angleterre, et dont les récits si singuliers explorent les thèmes du déplacement et de la nostalgie. A ce conte d'exils, Daniel Mendelsohn ajoute sa propre voix, entrelaçant l'histoire de la crise qu'il traversa entre l'écriture de la grande fresque mémorielle des Disparus et celle du récit intimiste d Une Odyssée. L'"art poétique" qui en résulte est un hommage aux mondes grecs et juifs, un trait d'union entre Orient et Occident et une ode à la littérature française.

UVA Press Presents
UVA Press Presents: Three Rings

UVA Press Presents

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 23:48


In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus��a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years—resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5626

Skylight Books Author Reading Series
SKYLIT: Daniel Mendelsohn, "THREE RINGS"

Skylight Books Author Reading Series

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 41:30


In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own--works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... Fran ois F nelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus--a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years--resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn's struggles to write two of his own books--a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father--that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.  _______________________________________________ Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang. Visit https://www.skylightbooks.com/event for future offerings from the Skylight Books Events team.

The Virtual Memories Show
Episode 397 - Daniel Mendelsohn

The Virtual Memories Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 75:53


With Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (UVA Press), Daniel Mendelsohn has written one of my favorite books of 2020. We get into Homer's use of Ring Composition and how it shapes Three Rings, how this book grew out of his experience writing An Odyssey, why he chose François Fénelon, Eric Auerbach, and WG Sebald as the three exiled subjects of his book, and how we understand the relationship between "what happened" and "the story of what happened" (that is, how narration changes the nature of facts). We also get into how he managed to compress and capture just about all of his major themes in his briefest book, why Auerbach disliked ring composition, and what it says about Homeric vs. Hebrew — or optimistic vs. pessimistic — styles of story, how every story has more stories embedded in it, and why Istanbul may serve as the fusion of Athens & Jerusalem. We also get into Daniel's pandemic experience and coping mechanisms for anxiety and dread, his mom's involvement in Ken Burns' upcoming documentary about the Holocaust in America, why translation is like a crossword puzzle for him, the negatives of focusing on STEM to the detriment of the liberal arts, and how we can both relate to Auerbach's comment, “If it had been possible for me to acquaint myself with all the work that has been done on so many subjects, I might have never reached the point of writing.” Follow Daniel on Twitter and Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

The Quarantine Tapes
The Quarantine Tapes 096: Daniel Mendelsohn

The Quarantine Tapes

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2020 28:12


Episode 096 of the Quarantine Tapes sees Paul Holdengräber joined by writer and critic Daniel Mendelsohn. A professor at Bard College, Daniel talks about the challenges of teaching remotely in recent months. He and Paul also express their concerns about how the pandemic and the economic crisis could negatively affect the humanities in a moment when that field of study may be more valuable than ever. Later, Paul and Daniel talk about Daniel’s upcoming book, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate. They dig into history, The Odyssey, and Daniel’s belief that Greek tragedy can offer incredible insight into this moment of national consequences and reckoning.

The Book Review
David Mitchell's Vast and Tangled Universe

The Book Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020 62:09


Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Mitchell's career and new novel, "Utopia Avenue," and Maria Konnikova talks about "The Biggest Bluff."

Le temps des écrivains
On se confine avec Homère… guidé par Daniel Mendelsohn !

Le temps des écrivains

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2020 58:25


durée : 00:58:25 - Le Temps des écrivains - par : Christophe Ono-dit-Biot - Le stimulant écrivain et critique américain Daniel Mendelsohn est l'invité de Christophe Ono-dit-Biot à l'occasion de la publication d"'Une Odyssée – Un père, un fils, une épopée", aux éditions Flammarion. - réalisation : Anne-Laure Chanel - invités : Daniel Mendelsohn écrivain et critique américain, helléniste et francophile

Culture en direct
On se confine avec Homère… guidé par Daniel Mendelsohn !

Culture en direct

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2020 58:25


durée : 00:58:25 - Le Temps des écrivains - par : Christophe Ono-dit-Biot - Le stimulant écrivain et critique américain Daniel Mendelsohn est l'invité de Christophe Ono-dit-Biot à l'occasion de la publication d"'Une Odyssée – Un père, un fils, une épopée", aux éditions Flammarion. - réalisation : Anne-Laure Chanel - invités : Daniel Mendelsohn écrivain et critique américain, helléniste et francophile

Conversations
A father and son odyssey

Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2020 48:12


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

Conversations
A father and son odyssey

Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 48:12


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

The Good Life Podcast with Sean Murray
TGL011: Life Lesson's from the Odyssey with Daniel Mendelsohn

The Good Life Podcast with Sean Murray

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2020 44:38


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.

Bookworm
Daniel Mendelsohn: Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones

Bookworm

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2020 28:28


Daniel Mendelsohn’s Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones is an uncommon collection of essays that intertwine the personal with the intellectual and critical.

The Virtual Memories Show
Episode 358 - Daniel Mendelsohn

The Virtual Memories Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2020 106:38


His wondrous new collection, Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (NYRB), brings a dizzying array of Daniel Mendelsohn's critical-essayistic-memoir pieces together. We sat down to talk about the work of the critic and the drama that makes for a great critical piece, as well as the temptation to make a name by going after easy targets, his need to criscross genres and categories with personal writing and criticism, and why his negative review of Mad Men got him more pushback than anything else he's written. We get into his amazing 2017 memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic, its gorgeous structure and its insight into Homer and our present day, while we try to suss out why the great Greek translators have either produced a great Iliad or a great Odyssey, but not both (he's working on a new translation of The Odyssey). We also discuss the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the nature of contemporary mythmaking, my pet theory about the tragedy of Achilles in the Iliad, Emily Wilson's question about Odysseus' true homophrosyne, the role of erudition in criticism, how institutions like The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Paris Review etc. handle succession, our love of the finale of The Americans, his one conversation with Philip Roth, and SO much more. • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

Bard College Office of Admission
Bard College - First Year Seminar

Bard College Office of Admission

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2019 17:23


In this episode, we join professors Daniel Mendelsohn, Lauren Curtis and Omar Cheta to learn more about Bard College's First Year Seminar program.

Literary Disco
Episode 155: Literary Disco and the Apple, Tree

Literary Disco

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 71:21


This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod read and discuss a number of essays from a new collection, Apple, Tree: Writers On Their Parents, Edited by Lise Funderburg, the collection presents new essay from twenty-five writers, each examining their relationship with one or both of their parents. We discuss the essays by Ann Patchett, Daniel Mendelsohn, Mat Johnson, Kate Carroll de Gutes, and S. Bear Bergman. This week's sponsor is The Short Story Advent Calendar from Hingston and Olsen. Use promo code LITERARYDISCO for 10% off your purchase! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LA LETTRE DE F. GUTHLEBEN
CHRONIQUE LIVRE BIBLIOTHEQUE DEPARTEMENTALE DU BAS-RHIN - Une odyssée - Daniel MENDELSOHN - Septembre 2019

LA LETTRE DE F. GUTHLEBEN

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2019 1:26


Envie de découvrir un livre disponible dans le réseau de la Bibliothèque Départementale du Bas-Rhin (BDBR) - http://biblio.bas-rhin.fr/ ? Présentation du livre de Daniel MENDELSOHN : une odysée

Nasjonalbiblioteket
Odyssevs i Lofoten. Mendelsohn om odysseer, kart og historie (på engelsk)

Nasjonalbiblioteket

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2019 49:05


Hvor gikk egentlig Odyssevs´ reise? Den norske presten og historikeren Jonas Ramus hevder i sitt verk «Ulysses et Otinus Unus & idem» (1716) at Odin og Odyssevs var én og samme, og at Odysseen til dels finner sted i Norge. Hans påstand er at malstrømmen i Lofoten, Moskenesstraumen, er Odysseens egentlige Karybdis. Med dette som forelegg vil Daniel Mendelsohn snakke om Odyssevs' historie fra renessansen og fremover, samt om kart som kilde til å forstå resepsjonen av klassisk litteratur i tidlig moderne tid. Mendelsohn har med bøker som «Forsvunnet» og «En odyssé» nådd et stort internasjonalt publikum. Han er professor i antikkens kultur ved Bard College i New York og regnes blant USAs fremste kritikere. Foredraget holdes på engelsk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Arts & Ideas
Michael Rakowitz, Archaeology Now, Epic Journeys and Facial Disfigurement

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2019 44:56


The American sculptor Michael Rakowitz on how his own Iraqi heritage drove him to make art about the disappearance of artefacts and people. From shame to sympathy - New Generation Thinker Emily Cock looks at the way the British State used facial disfigurement to mark criminals for life. Nicholas Jubber has travelled Europe from Iceland to Turkey exploring the popularity of ancient epic tales - and ahead of the British Academy's summer showcase, we hear from Turkey about new ways of involving local villages in the cultural heritage around them.....and how a conversation between primatologists and archaeologists are refining the story of how stone tool use developed. Michael Radowitz Whitechapel Gallery London 4 June 2019 – 25 August 2019 Nicholas Jubber's book 'Epic Continent' out now Emily Cock teaches at Cardiff University and holds a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project Fragile Faces: Disfigurement in Britain & its Colonies (1600–1850). Isilay Gursu Cultural Heritage Management Fellow British Institute at Ankara and Tomos Proffitt, Institute of Archaeology, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow University College London both appearing in British Academy Summer Showcase 21 - 22 June 2019 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/ New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Image: Michael Rakowitz (portrait) with The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest palace of Nimrud, Room N) 2018 (Photo John Nguyen/PA Wire, Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery) You can hear a discussion of The Odyssey with Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kqjc0 Producer: Jacqueline Smith

Lannan Podcasts
Sebastian Barry with Daniel Mendelsohn, 1 May 2019 – Audio

Lannan Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2019 86:19


Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 1, 2019. Sebastian Barry is a novelist, poet, and playwright. His latest book, Days without End (2016), tells the story of Thomas McNulty, a 17-year-old fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland by enlisting in the U.S. Army in the 1850s. He is sent […]

Druckfrisch
Denis Scheck empfiehlt Daniel Mendelsohn: "Eine Odyssee"

Druckfrisch

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2019


Wie jeden Monat hat Denis Scheck einen persönlichen Tipp für Sie: "Eine Odyssee" von Daniel Mendelsohn.

LitHouse podcast
Ingmar Bergman the author

LitHouse podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2019 45:55


This year marks 101 years since the birth of one of the world’s most influential artists: Ingmar Bergman. The anniversary last year brought renewed focus to his films, but what about his writing? During his life, Bergman wrote more than 150 plays, film manuscripts, essays, articles and works of fiction. The Best Intentions (1991), Sunday’s Children (1992) and Private Confessions (1996) are often referred to as his “novel trilogy”, being closer in form to novels than texts written for theater or film. But are they novels? The texts move between memoir, fiction and chamber play, while Bergman explores his own childhood through reminiscence of the past and the dramatic of the everyday. The novel trilogy has been republished in both English and Norwegian. The American professor, critic, memoirist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn has written the introductory essay to the Norwegian edition, in which he reads the trilogy in light of earlier encounters with Bergman’s works. But what does writer and daughter Linn Ullmann think of Bergman’s novel trilogy? The two meet cultural editor of Morgenbladet and writer Ane Farsethås for a conversation about the author Ingmar Bergman. The conversation took place on February 7th 2019.   LitHouse is a podcast from the House of Literature in Oslo, presenting adapted versions of lectures and conversations featuring international writers and thinkers. Music by Apothek.

Litteraturhusets podkast
Forfatteren Ingmar Bergman

Litteraturhusets podkast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2019 45:55


I år er det 101 år siden Ingmar Bergman, en av verdens mest innflytelsesrike kunstnere, ble født. Gjennom hele jubileumsåret i fjor ble han viet mye oppmerksomhet for filmene sine, men hva med Bergmans forfatterskap? I løpet av sitt liv skrev Bergman over 150 skuespill, filmmanus, essays, artikler og skjønnlitterære verk. Den gode viljen (1991), Søndagsbarn (1993) og Fortrolige samtaler (1996) omtales ofte som «romantrilogien» fordi de alle er rene leseverk heller enn tekster skrevet for teater eller film. Men er de egentlig romaner? Tekstene beveger seg mellom memoar, fiksjon og kammerspill mens Bergman utforsker sin egen barndom gjennom erindringens lek og det dramatiske i det hverdagslige. Romantrilogien gjenutgis nå samlet på norsk, oversatt av Gunnel Malmström, Axel Amlie og Kjell Olaf Jensen respektivt. Den amerikanske professoren, kritikeren, memoarforfatteren og oversetteren Daniel Mendelsohn har skrevet et innledende essay til den nye utgivelsen, hvor han leser trilogien i lys av sine tidlige møter med Bergmans arbeider. Men hva tenker forfatter og datter Linn Ullmann om Bergmans romantrilogi? De to møter kulturredaktør i Morgenbladet og forfatter av Grenseverdier. Sannhet og litterær metode Ane Farsethås til samtale om Bergmans forfatterskap. Samtalen fant sted på Litteraturhuset 7. februar 2019.   Litteraturhusets podkast presenterer bearbeidede versjoner av samtaler og foredrag i regi av Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset. Musikk av Apothek.

Arts & Ideas
Sea Goings

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2019 51:30


Conceptual artist Katie Paterson on art which produces candles scented with planetary odours – one of Saturn's moons has a hint of cherry…and how she and co-exhibitor the Romantic painter JMW Turner share an interest in the precise nature of moon light. Writers Julia Blackburn and Charlotte Runcie on the gaze of the beachcomber and searching for lost worlds along the tideline and Cutty Sark curator Hannah Stockton explains why the story of the famous tea cutter is one of survival. A place that exists only in moonlight: Katie Paterson & JMW Turner at Turner Contemporary Margate until May 6th 2019 Katie Paterson's First There is a Mountain project will tour 25 coastal beach locations from 31 March to 27 October 2019 Time Song: In Search of Doggerland by Julia Blackburn mixes personal history with the archaeological evidence for the Mesolithic peoples who lived on the land beneath the North Sea. Salt On Your Tongue - Women and the Sea by Charlotte Runcie describes her pregnancy and the death of her grandmother, set against shore walking and myths of women and the sea from ancient Greece to Scottish folk song. Cutty Sark 150 includes a range of events at Royal Museums Greenwich including a performance by the BBC Singers and of the Pirates of Penzance. You can hear a Free Thinking Landmark discussion of The Odyssey with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Amit Chaudhuri, Emily Wilson and Daniel Mendelsohn https://bbc.in/2S2QuiE and a discussion of Mermaids with Imogen Hermes Gowar and Sarah Peverley https://bbc.in/2FPeEH5 Producer: Jacqueline Smith

KentPresents
Greek to Him: An Odyssey

KentPresents

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2019 46:36


Today we’re continuing our liberal arts segment with our presentation, Greek to Him: An Odyssey.According to Dwight Garner in the New York Times, Daniel Mendelsohn’s latest book is “a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading—and reliving—the Odyssey. Mr. Mendelsohn wears his learning lightly yet superbly. What catches you off guard about this memoir is how moving it is. It has many things to say not only about Homer’s epic poem, but about fathers and sons.This panel features Daniel Mendelsohn author and critic at the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker in conversation with Corby Kummer, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, restaurant critic, and author.Find more information at: https://kentpresents.orgVideos of the presentations and discussions can be found at our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJSTb4J7gZpeqNXfe9IpRpw

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2018 59:49


Who is Odysseus? Why can't he get home? And will the gods help or hinder his journey? In this special episode, the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard chairs a panel featuring the author and academic Simon Goldhill, the memoirist and translator Daniel Mendelsohn, the poet Karen McCarthy Woolf and the novelist Madeline Miller. This is a recording of a live event, staged in collaboration with the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival in October 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Twenty Summers
Michael Cunningham and Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation: Making Literature out of Literature

Twenty Summers

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2018 65:32


Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham and the internationally best-selling essayist, critic, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn discussed how writers turn consciously to literature itself as a way of broadening their own horizons on Sunday, May 27, 2018 in Provincetown’s Hawthorne Barn as part of Twenty Summers' annual month-long arts festival. Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), The Snow Queen, Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the nonfiction book Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown. His most recent book is A Wild Swan and Other Tales (illustrated by Yuko Shimizu). He is a senior lecturer at Yale and lives in New York. Daniel Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator. His books include An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017), shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize (U.K.) and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Newsday, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus, and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006), which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award in the United States and the Prix Médicis in France, among many other honors. A member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Association, he teaches literature at Bard College.

The Book Review
The End of the ‘Struggle’

The Book Review

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2018 61:19


Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” and Jill Lepore talks about “These Truths: A History of the United States.”

O Livro do dia
Edição de 03 de Agosto 2018 - "Uma Odisseia - Um pai, um filho e uma epopeia", de Daniel Mendelsohn

O Livro do dia

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2018


Edição de 03 de Agosto 2018 - "Uma Odisseia - Um pai, um filho e uma epopeia", de Daniel Mendelsohn

LitHouse podcast
Daniel Mendelsohn and Bernhard Ellefsen about An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

LitHouse podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2018 56:52


Daniel Mendelsohn is a Classics professor, and teaches his students the classic epic The Odyssey. One Spring, his 81 year old father decides to take his class. But what kind of a hero was Oddyseus, really? the father asks critically - a liar who cheated on his wife! This is the starting point for Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic. In this podcast, Mendelsohn talks with literary critic in Morgenbladet, Bernhard Ellefsen, about following in the footsteps of the classics. The conversation took place on October 25. 2017.   Lithouse is a podcast from the House of Literature in Oslo, presenting adapted versions of lectures and conversations featuring international writers and thinkers. Music by Apothek.

Litteraturhusets podkast
Daniel Mendelsohn og Bernhard Ellefsen om En odyssé. En far, en sønn og et epos

Litteraturhusets podkast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2018 56:52


Daniel Mendelsohn er professor i antikkens kultur og underviser studenter i det klassiske eposet Odysseen. En vår bestemmer hans 81 år gamle far seg for å følge undervisningen. Men hva slags helt var egentlig Odyssevs? spør faren kritisk – en helt som både løy og var utro mot sin kone! Dette er utgangspunktet for Daniel Mendelsohns memoar En odyssé. En far, en sønn og et epos (til norsk ved Knut Ofstad). I denne podkasten samtaler Mendelsohn med kritiker i Morgenbladet Bernhard Ellefsen om å bevege seg i klassikernes fotspor. Samtalen fant sted 25. oktober 2017.   Litteraturhusets podkast presenterer bearbeidede versjoner av samtaler og foredrag i regi av Stiftelsen Litteraturhuset. Musikk av Apothek.

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The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
Daniel Mendelsohn on The Odyssey, Identity, Literary Criticism and Memoir

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2018 64:44


"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 PhD, 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, particularly The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books." His multi-award winning books include The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (2006); a memoir, The Elusive Embrace (1999); two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (2008) and Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays From the Classics to Pop Culture (2012); a scholarly study of Greek tragedy, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays (2002); a two-volume translation of the poetry of C. P. Cavafy (2009), which included the first English translation of the poet's “Unfinished Poems. Daniel was in Montreal attending the Blue Met Literary Festival when we met to talk about, among other things, his book, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017); the Greek view of the universe; disasters; Odysseus being a jerk; readers and texts; Homer, The Odyssey and anthropology; the fluidity of human identity, and its multiplex, relational nature; time; bored Gods; death and meaning; fathers; New Criticism; autobiography in criticism; being intelligent and interesting versus being right; robots and objectivity; self-knowledge and literature; open heart surgery; stupid good reviews; why memoir is such a strong form; Oprah and shared emotion; Cavafy; preserving culture; crazy families; truth, tragedy and myths; the Titanic, the Kennedys and glamour. 

Podcast Pompidou
Podcast Pompidou - dinsdag 15 mei 2018

Podcast Pompidou

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2018 59:53


Nicky Aerts praat met Herlinde Leyssens over haar boek 'Kongokorset', verschenen bij Vrijdag. Koen De Vlieger neemt ons mee naar de Brusselse stadsresidentie van de adellijke familie d'Ursel. Het gebouw moest sneuvelen voor de Noord-Zuidverbinding maar komt opnieuw tot leven op de tentoonstelling 'Winters in Brussel' in Kasteel d'Ursel in Hingene. Christophe Vekeman las 'Een Odyssee' van Daniel Mendelsohn, verschenen bij De Bezige Bij.

Fahrenheit
FAHRENHEIT Libro del giorno del 19/03/2018 - Daniel Mendelsohn, Un'odissea, Einaudi

Fahrenheit

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2018 30:10


Arts & Ideas
Landmark: The Odyssey

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2018 44:52


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 Book Bully
2: The BookBully Blabs New Books

The Book Bully

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2017 38:28


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

LittPod
Daniel Mendelsohn: En odyssé

LittPod

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2017 60:24


Om å reise hjem. Med Daniel Mendelsohn. En far melder seg på sin sønns forelesningsrekke om Odysséen, og sammen legger de ut på en emosjonell og geografisk dannelsesreise. Den kritikerroste forfatteren og klassisisten, Daniel Mendelsohn, har skrevet en bok om Odysséen, sin far og det som skulle bli hans siste reise. Den intime forbindelsen mellom Homers fortelling fra antikken og bokens utforskning av forholdet mellom far og sønn, fedre og sønner, gjør En odyssé til en unik bok som leser egne familierelasjoner i lys av Homers evige klassiker. Litteraturprofessor Eirik Vassenden møter Daniel Mendelsohn til samtale.

LittPod
En odyssé

LittPod

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2017 60:25


Om å reise hjem. Med Daniel Mendelsohn. [Samtale på engelsk] En far melder seg på sin sønns forelesningsrekke om Odysséen, og sammen legger de ut på en emosjonell og geografisk dannelsesreise. Den kritikerroste forfatteren og klassisisten, Daniel Mendelsohn, har skrevet en bok om Odysséen, sin far og det som skulle bli hans siste reise. Den intime forbindelsen mellom Homers fortelling fra antikken og bokens utforskning av forholdet mellom far og sønn, fedre og sønner, gjør En odyssé til en unik bok som leser egne familierelasjoner i lys av Homers evige klassiker. Litteraturprofessor Eirik Vassenden møter Daniel Mendelsohn til samtale.

Fully Booked by Kirkus Reviews
Daniel Mendelsohn and Eleanor Henderson

Fully Booked by Kirkus Reviews

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 72:00


We travel to ancient Greece in this week's episode with Daniel Mendelsohn, author of AN ODYSSEY: A FATHER, A SON, AND AN EPIC, in which Mendelsohn's 81-year-old father asks to sit in on the seminar about THE ODYSSEY his son is teaching (complications ensue). We also catch up with Eleanor Henderson, whose new novel, THE TWELVE-MILE STRAIGHT, is an ambitious novel set in the South in 1930. And our editors check in with their latest recommendations!

The Art of Manliness
#337: What Homer's Odyssey Can Teach Us Today

The Art of Manliness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2017 52:44


I love many of the classic myths and poems of ancient Greece. My favorite, though, is The Odyssey. While on the surface it seems to just be another epic adventure story, if you dig deeper, The Odyssey can give you insights on fatherhood, marriage, and surviving in a world that’s in constant flux.  My guest today recently published a book exploring these themes in The Odyssey, particularly the theme of fathers and sons searching for each other. His name is Daniel Mendelsohn, and he's a classicist, essayist, and book critic. In his latest book, "An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic," Daniel shares the experience of having his 81-year-old father enroll as a student in the undergrad seminar he taught on The Odyssey and the insights he gleaned about his relationship with his dad by looking at the father-son relationships explored in the epic poem. We begin our conversation with a big picture overview of The Odyssey and why Daniel’s dad decided to take his seminar on it. Daniel and I then discuss what we can learn about the relationship between sons and fathers from Odysseus' relationships both with his son Telemachus, and with his father Laertes. We then shift to what we can learn from Odysseus and his wife Penelope on forming a strong marriage, how travel can change us, and why The Odyssey becomes more relevant to men when they have families of their own.  This is a fun podcast filled with amazing insights about one of the greatest stories ever told. After you listen to it, you’ll want to dust off your copy of The Odyssey itself so you can read it with fresh eyes.

Auckland Writers Festival
Daniel Mendelsohn: An Irresistible Critic

Auckland Writers Festival

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2015 55:20


Auckland Writers Festival 2015 “Our most irresistible literary critic,” says The New York Times Book Review. Daniel Mendelsohn is an elegant stylistic polymath – a reviewer but also an essayist, memoirist, classicial scholar and translator of the Greek poet CP Cavafy. In his memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million he excavates his family history; in his essay collection Waiting For The Barbarians he disses Mad Men as “melodrama rather than drama”. His new project is a literature-and-life book, recounting the year he spent reading The Odyssey with his late father and the revelations of that experience. He speaks with Ian Wedde.

Auckland Writers Festival » Podcasts
Translation Gymnastics: Daniel Mendelsohn & Anna Jackson

Auckland Writers Festival » Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2015


Daniel Mendelsohn and Anna Jackson share an enthusiam for the classics and for translation. He’s an acclaimed US memoirist, critic and translator of the Greek poet CP Cavafy; she’s a New Zealand poet whose latest collection I Clodia and Other Portraits is indebted to the scandalous Roman aristocrat Clodia, the beautiful addressee of searing and racy poetry by... Read full post ›

Auckland Writers Festival » Podcasts
Daniel Mendelsohn: An Irresistible Critic

Auckland Writers Festival » Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2015


“Our most irresistible literary critic,” says The New York Times Book Review. Daniel Mendelsohn is an elegant stylistic polymath – a reviewer but also an essayist, memoirist, classicial scholar and translator of the Greek poet CP Cavafy. In his memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million he excavates his family history; in... Read full post ›

World Affairs: Colgate Conversations (Video-Small)
Colgate Conversation on World Affairs #10

World Affairs: Colgate Conversations (Video-Small)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2011 18:16


Colgate University President Jeffrey Herbst speaks with Daniel Mendelsohn, professor, cultural critic, and author of the acclaimed memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.

World Affairs: Colgate Conversations  (Audio)
Colgate Conversation on World Affairs #10

World Affairs: Colgate Conversations (Audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2011 18:16


Colgate University President Jeffrey Herbst speaks with Daniel Mendelsohn, professor, cultural critic, and author of the acclaimed memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.

World Affairs: Colgate Conversations (Video-Large)
Colgate Conversation on World Affairs #10

World Affairs: Colgate Conversations (Video-Large)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2011 18:16


Colgate University President Jeffrey Herbst speaks with Daniel Mendelsohn, professor, cultural critic, and author of the acclaimed memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.

Art & Literature
Daniel Mendelsohn: Poems of C.P. Cavafy

Art & Literature

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2010 63:27


Caught in the Creative Act Author Readings - Readings
Daniel Mendelsohn, October 2008

Caught in the Creative Act Author Readings - Readings

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2009 71:43


University of South Carolina