This talk took place at Weis Cinema in the Campus Center. I loved being at Bard for the first time: took  the train up the Hudson River and was met in Rhinecliff by Professor James (Jamie) Romm, who gave me a tour of the campus. A beautiful college campus in the fall always makes me want to go back to school and major in classics . . . but I find that if I lie down in a dark room, the urge passes. During my talk (I hate the word “lecture”), the house lights were not working, and we couldn’t drag the microphone over to the table where the ambient light from the big windows was better, but the audience was kind and cut me some slack. My friends Karl Rohr and Ann Patty attended, and I met the writer and translator Daniel Mendelsohn (“An Odyssey”), who is on the faculty at Bard. The next day, I went back to Annandale-on-Hudson to visit the grave of Philip Roth in the Bard Cemetery. Here is his stone: