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

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No to bird.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we need without books?
0:23.5	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt. This is Bookworm, and I've just had
0:31.2	the most wonderful two weeks. I have been reading my guest's work, three of his books.
0:37.7	I have more to read, and I look forward to reading more.
0:41.1	My guest is Daniel Mendelssohn.
0:43.0	The New York Review Books People have put together a collection of his essays called
0:50.1	Ecstasy and Terror from the Greeks to the Game of Thrones.
0:55.0	My magnificent eye doctor, who belongs to a book group,
1:01.0	happened to recommend a book called an Odyssey,
1:05.0	a father and son and an epic,
1:09.0	and Daniel Mendelsohn who was and is a classics major, read
1:14.3	the Odyssey with his father and then went traveling with him to visit those spots.
1:21.4	It's one of the most moving works of intellect I've encountered in years. It was thrilling for me to read.
1:29.9	And the third book was another book of essays
1:32.3	called Waiting for the Barbarians,
1:36.0	Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture.
1:39.4	Is waiting for the barbarians the name of a kavafi poem?
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