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Daniel Mendelsohn Interviewed in the New York Review of Books

Mendelsohn discussed his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press.
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Bard College Student Samantha Barrett ’26 Wins 2025 PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize

This award recognizes 12 emerging writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine, journal, or cultural website, and aims to support the launch of their careers as fiction writers.
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Robert Cioffi Reviews The Red Sea Scrolls for the London Review of Books

The book discusses the papyri of Wadi el-Jarf, which changed how we view the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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June 2013

06-28-2013
"Master craftsman" Daniel Mendelsohn's essay collection makes NPR's list of top five nonfiction summer reads.
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06-26-2013
Professor Klinkenborg explores the "rare and precious inheritance" of a solid education in literature and writing.
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06-26-2013
Sara Wintz's first full-length collection of poetry, Walking Across A Field We Are Focused On At This Time Now, "takes the twentieth century and gives it a new haircut," writes Claire Wilcox.
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06-26-2013
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06-25-2013
Bard classicist, critic, and literature professor Daniel Mendelsohn talks with KUOW in Seattle about the role of professional critics in an age of customer reviews and blogs.
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06-25-2013
Writer Sherman Yellen '53 pens "Screenplay for a 60th Wedding Anniversary" for his wife, designer Joan Yellen '55.
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06-25-2013
Professor Romm reviews Harry Eyres's new book Horace and Me.
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06-20-2013
Bard Fiction Prize Submission Deadline Is July 15<br />
The Bard Fiction Prize is awarded annually to a promising, emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger. Winners receive a monetary award and an appointment as writer in residence at Bard for one semester. Applications for the 2014 prize are due by July 15, 2013.
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06-03-2013
Author Teju Cole has been selected as the winner of the International Literature Prize by Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt for his debut novel Open City. The award recognizes both an outstanding book and its first translation into German.
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