Daniel Mendelsohn at Colorado College
Classicist Daniel Mendelsohn will appear twice at Colorado College on Monday, Feb. 8th. At 3:30, he will discuss his career as a literary translator, and at 7 pm he will read from his work including the recent two volumes of poetry by C.P. Cavafy.
The venues are:
(1) Cornerstone Arts building, Cascade and Cache La Poudre (#80 on the map at http://www.coloradocollege.edu/welcome/campus_map/), film viewing room, for the afternoon discussion.
(2) Palmer Hall, heart of the campus between Cascade and Nevada at San Rafael St. #11 on the map, Gates Common Room on the second floor, for the evening reading.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Mendelsohn (Classics Dept., Bard College, frequent contributor to the New
York Review of Books and the New Yorker--see his current piece on
memoirs, which "all started late one night in 371 A. D." at http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/01/25/100125crbo_books_mendelsohn--published his Cavafy translations last year--review at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Longenbach-t.html.
The venues are:
(1) Cornerstone Arts building, Cascade and Cache La Poudre (#80 on the map at http://www.coloradocollege.edu/welcome/campus_map/), film viewing room, for the afternoon discussion.
(2) Palmer Hall, heart of the campus between Cascade and Nevada at San Rafael St. #11 on the map, Gates Common Room on the second floor, for the evening reading.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Mendelsohn (Classics Dept., Bard College, frequent contributor to the New
York Review of Books and the New Yorker--see his current piece on
memoirs, which "all started late one night in 371 A. D." at http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/01/25/100125crbo_books_mendelsohn--published his Cavafy translations last year--review at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Longenbach-t.html.
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