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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · 13d

Seems about right.

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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Odyssey: "the right book in the right hands of the right person" @jackewilson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social #greatbooks

The 25 Greatest Books of All Times Series: #24 The Odyssey

Check out Episode 720 in which Jacke takes a special look at The Odyssey, which ranks #24 on his list of the 25 Greatest Books of All Time. The story continues to …

www.historyofliterature.com

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 24

« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… »

#Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!

@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

www.nybooks.com/events/drama...

Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn

Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...

www.nybooks.com

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 15

“Any interference of the State with the literary or scientific pursuits of the People is tyrannical in its origins, its essence and its effects.”

Constantine #Cavafy, reading note on #Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall” (2.13)

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey!

@penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

www.nybooks.com/events/drama...

Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn

Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...

www.nybooks.com

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 2

Very proud to announce this year’s winners of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation’s
Silvers Grants for Work in Progress:

silversfoundation.org/2025-grant-r...

2025 Grant Recipients - The Robert B. Silvers Foundation

2025 Recipients Mark Chiusano Mark Chiusano is a journalist and the author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, and the story collection...

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Aug 1

I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey film:

www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

The next Oppenheimer? Christopher Nolan’s new film is selling out already

A year before its release, tickets have been snapped up for screenings of The Odyssey with Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Zendaya

www.thetimes.com

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Jul 31

Ok I just gotta say that “Giri/Haji” is the wackiest thing I’ve seen in a long long time…which isn’t to say I’m not enjoying it. But mamma mia!

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 18

Listen to the latest episode of the podcast with @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social — plus archival audio of Lewis H. Lapham talking about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...

Episode 7: Daniel Mendelsohn and Lewis H. Lapham

The latest episode of The World in Time.

www.laphamsquarterly.org

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Lapham’s Quarterly @laphamsquarterly.bsky.social · Jul 18

A reading from @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social’s new translation of The Odyssey. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/g...

Green Terror | Homer

A reading from Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey.

www.laphamsquarterly.org

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Lost: a search for six of six million by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social has stayed with me for months since I happened across it at the library. #BookSky 📚

Cover of the book The Lost: a search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn. The cover is sepia-toned, with faded-back photos of the author's family arrayed around the edges. The words are in a deeper sepia and look like worn stamps or old letterpress. This one grabbed me by the heart and has not yet let go; I don't ever want it to.

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Jul 2

If the Democrats can’t make hay out of this repellent Bill, relentlessly explaining to the people what has been done to them, they don’t deserve to go on existing as a party.

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Arran Greek @arrangreek.bsky.social · Jun 29

@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social You and Umberto Eco weighing heavily in July’s issue of Vogue Greece.

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 27

If only! ;-)

Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 12

“Viewed from the heights of reason, all life looks like some malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.”

—Goethe (quoted by Thomas Mann in “Goethe’s Career As a Man of Letters,” 1932)

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · Jun 11

Friends and #Homer & #Classics lovers in #Connecticut! I’ll be speaking about my new #translation of the #Odyssey at the @wiltonlibrary tomorrow evening 12 June, in conversation with Max Gabrielson. details below!

wilton.librarycalendar.com/event/daniel...

Author Talk: Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Max Gabrielson | Wilton Library

Celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn will join Wilton High School's beloved classics teacher Max Gabrielson in conversation about Mendelsohn's new translation of Homer's

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Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social · May 29

My recent culture diet: a grammar documentary, a Covid memoir, a new Odyssey, “Parade,” and more. Feat. @grammartable.bsky.social @charlesfinch.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social @philtinline.bsky.social @edgarwright.bsky.social fritinancy.substack.com/p/culture-di...

Culture diet #2

More of what I've been reading and seeing lately.

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · May 29

Amen.

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · May 27

I did an interview with my Mom a few years back for PBS, discussing my book about retracing the Odyssey with my late dad—if you want to get a flavor of mom, this is a fun way!

youtu.be/z2zXdbKeZ4E

Daniel Mendelsohn interview with his mother, Marlene

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · May 27

Thanks so much Emily —I was! X

Daniel Mendelsohn @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social · May 27

Since many of you have appreciated the fabulous wit of my mom over the years, I’m sorry to share that she died this morning, aged 94. She was an unforgettable mom, amazing teacher & tireless environmental activist. Her humor, intelligence, beauty & wild sense of fun will be missed.

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