Award-winning memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn joins us to discuss his new book An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic. When Daniel's father, 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn, decided to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar that he teaches at Bard College, it changed their relationship. The experience of reading Homer's epic together uncovered long-buried secrets that allowed the Daniel to finally underst…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM on September 13, 2017