Daniel Mendelsohn

When author Daniel Mendelsohn’s octogenarian father landed in his Homer seminar at Bard College, the older man set in motion an odyssey both hilarious and heartfelt. Inspired by an epic, they boarded a ship to retrace Odysseus's famous voyage through the Mediterranean. Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a conversation about his deeply moving new memoir, An Odyssey, and hear about his transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer's epic masterpiece. Daniel Mendelsohn's books include the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy; and two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken and Waiting for the Barbarians. He teaches literature at Bard College. Join the conversation on Twitter: @ArtsJCCSF Join the conversation on Facebook: facebook.com/ArtsandIdeasJCCSF/