Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Award-winning memoirist, critic and bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn sits down with Doug Miller to discuss his deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey through Homer’s epic masterpiece. Mendelsohn teaches literature at Bard College and has written An Odyssey, which is at once a family memoir, brilliant literary criticism and a narrative of education. But most of all, An Odyssey is a love story that tells a larger, personal story of his family. Like Homer’s epic, Mendelsohn’s odyssey focuses on quests, recognitions and homecomings. Please join Mendelsohn and Miller for this deeply personal and moving conversation.
Award-winning memoirist, critic and bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn sits down with Doug Miller to discuss his deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey through Homer’s epic masterpiece. Mendelsohn teaches literature at Bard College and has written An Odyssey, which is at once a family memoir, brilliant literary criticism and a narrative of education. But most of all, An Odyssey is a love story that tells a larger, personal story of his family. Like Homer’s epic, Mendelsohn’s odyssey focuses on quests, recognitions and homecomings. Please join Mendelsohn and Miller for this deeply personal and moving conversation.
