So much for “Design for Living.”

Tallulah Bankhead, on being told there was no toilet paper available: 'Well, do you have two fives for a ten?'

The Lattimore Iliad was published by UChicagoPress in 1951. By 1965, when his Odyssey was ready, his editor was at Harper & Row, & it went there.

It took Odysseus ten years to get home. It took Chicago nearly 75 to get an Odyssey.

Daniel Mendelsohn’s proved well worth the wait.

For those in the NY area on May 6, we'd love to have you join Daniel Mendelsohn, author Eva Umlauf, and yours truly at The 92nd Street Y, New York to launch the translation Eva Umlauf's Holocaust memoir, pub Mandel Vilar and Dryad Press: 92ny.org/event/yom-hash…

“Solemn”?

On this day in 2012, we lost my dad, Jay Mendelsohn. Five years later, my book about our relationship—filtered, in the last year of his life, through #Homer ’s #Odyssey —came into the world:

May’s Book Club Pick: Father-Son Bonding, With Homer as Guide nytimes.com/2017/11/17/boo…

#Homer #poetry #Greece #ClassicsTwitter

Well, after six years, this baby--all 679 pages of her--got delivered yesterday to UChicagoPress Levi Stahl #Odyssey #translation #poetry

Hrmph.

“But still I lived ten blessed months
in the serenity and security of Christ.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Tomb of Ignatius”, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

#poetry #cavafy

Happy Easter!

#Giotto , “Resurrection” (1304-06)

Very teary as Young Royals Forever #YoungRoyals finale ends the way it always had to. 😢

Finished this last night (after final session of terrific 4-part The New York Review of Books seminar with Daniel Mendelsohn). Then listened again to Backlisted Podcast on “Rings,” w/ John Mitchinson account of publishing translation.

Thrilled that Daniel Mendelsohn is delivering the Berlin Lectures ('Twisty Ways: Adventures in Translating the Odyssey') at The University of Chicago on 4/23 and 4/30. They preview his new translation of the epic, coming from The University of ChicagoPress next year. berlinfamilylectures.uchicago.edu

Enjoying a sofa-bound late afternoon with this lovely book by ⁦Daniel Mendelsohn⁩. Counts as research for my post #CircusMaximus writing project but also just a really great read. Highly recommend. 📚

I would also add, if you enjoyed this series on the titanic, that you should read this excellent New Yorker piece from Daniel Mendelsohn newyorker.com/magazine/2012/…

If you’re interested in finally learning how to research your Ashkenazi Jewish roots, this is a great way to start! (I’m wholly objective…)

my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/howtojewishg…

One of the most remarkable objects in #Pompeii is a marble table support with P. Casca Longus inscribed on it. Longus was the 1st assassin to stab Julius Caesar on #IdesOfMarch (today in 44 BC). On his death Longus’ possessions were auctioned & this table was bought by a Pompeian

“Of glory be you fearful, O my Soul.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Ides of March”, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn

#poetry #cavafy #IdesofMarch