Emily Wilson

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468 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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Fresh Air · ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson: Nolan should've hired a screenwriter · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, I took my contact details down from my pen website.

I've made myself a little harder to find.

Also, I don't want to be invisible.

My name is not No Man.

I want to actually be able to be out in the world and speak about things I care about with people who are engaged and want to talk to me.

I mean, I mostly just...

remind myself that this is a tiny pocket of the world.

Most people are decent and well-intentioned.

And I also, when I was a child, I learned by heart Kipling's poem, If.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.

I could do the whole thing, but I'm not going to waste your time with the whole thing.

But it ends up with the idea that if you can do all of that, if you can put things in perspective,

You'll be a man, my son.

And so I just think, I'm the bigger man here.

Okay.

Yes.

There was news to me.

I mean, I hadn't even thought about the fact that all of the translations I'd used in the classroom before were by men.

I mean, that wasn't actually part of my motivation at all.

I mean, I've already talked about my motivation in terms of poetics and in terms of pacing and in terms of the proto-dramatic vividness of the poem.

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