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DANIEL MENDELSOHN — ECSTASY AND TERROR

Daniel Mendelsohn’s new collection ECSTASY AND TERROR—FROM THE GREEKS TO GAME OF THRONES brings together his reviews and essays on Cavafy and Sappho, Mary Renault, Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, David Ferry’s Virgil, Helen DeWitt, Henry Roth, and Karl Ove Knausgård.

Join Mendelsohn this week in Culver City for a reading and conversation. A copy of ECSTASY AND TERROR is included with admission.

DANIEL MENDELSOHN

Tuesday, October 29, at 7:30 pm.

Kirk Douglas Theatre

9820 Washington Boulevard, Culver City.

From top: Daniel Mendelsohn, photograph by Matthew Mendelsohn, courtesy and © the author and the photographer; Mary Renault, The Persian Boy cover image courtesy and © Pantheon; Mendelsohn, Ecstasy and Terror cover image courtesy and © New York Review Books; Duane Michals, The Adventures of Constantine Cavafy, 2007, image courtesy and © the photographer and Twin Palms Publishers; Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited cover image courtesy and © Dell.

EDWARD ST. AUBYN

A brilliant, autobiographical journey through the darker corners of the British aristocracy—childhood rape, alcoholism, drug addiction, recovery, and what comes next—THE PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS by Edward St. Aubyn are available in one volume with an introduction by Zadie Smith, who favorably compares their author to Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse. and Evelyn Waugh.

(There’s also a recent mini-series with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.)

 

Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels (London and New York: Picador).

panmacmillan.com/the-patrick-melrose-novels

PATRICK MELROSE

sho.com/patrick-melrose

Above: Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose (2018). Image credit: Showtime.

Image credit below: Picador.

Below: Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose (2018). Image credit: Showtime.