Sat. September 5, 6pm
Join us for an evening with Phil Cousineau, award-winning writer, filmmaker, story consultant and editor, travel leader and inspirational speaker on myth in the modern world, as he discusses his latest book, The Wisdom of the Odyssey.
Throughout American literature and myth-making there’s a thread that runs clear back to Homer’s epic, weaving its way through the works of the many great writers to have adopted the tradition, from Mark Twain to Jack London, John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, and many others who hit the road and recorded what they found out there. To traverse the vastness of this continent becomes indeed and odyssey of one’s own—the kind of journey that changes you.
from New World Library:
A fresh, modern companion to Homer’s Odyssey that illuminates its timeless lessons on change, resilience, and the search for home.
For nearly three thousand years, Homer’s Odyssey has captivated audiences with its tale of Odysseus’s perilous return journey after the Trojan War. In The Wisdom of the Odyssey, mythologist Phil Cousineau distills the epic into twenty-four chapters that mirror Homer’s original books and connect their lessons to our own lives. Readers follow Odysseus through his ordeals and changes of heart, as he’s sustained not only by cunning and grit but by love for his wife, Penelope; his son, Telemachus; and his homeland, the island of Ithaka. In his delightfully strange world of monsters, tricksters, and sorceresses, Homer reveals what it means to be human. Timed for release with Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film adaptation, this volume shows how Odysseus’s enduring story is more relevant than ever, and how it can guide us toward perseverance, meaning, and a richer inner life.