Marilyn Hagerty — the 85-year-old Internet-viral food critic and columnist from North Dakota who became instantly famous (Google her) this month following her recent review of The Olive Garden in Grand Forks — was among the first US critics to write about “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean.” Below is
A profile of The Idiot by Marc Beauchamp in the “Redding (CA) Record Searchlight” newspaper (February 4, 2012) illustrates that he continues to winter away in Northern California writing “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean” @ http://www.redding.com/news/2012/feb/04/marc-beauchamp-reddings-odysseus-finds-his-way/ Marc Beauchamp: Redding’s ‘Odysseus’ finds his way home In
Three copies of “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean” have been donated to The People’s Library at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City. The books were given to the “read and return” library on Halloween and available when protesters returned to Zuccoti Park after participating
The Idiot returned to Turkey in September to swim the Hellespont (http://goo.gl/r4SiF) and MedTrek through Gallipoli to Troy (http://goo.gl/SJIOd), up Mount Ida (http://goo.gl/EqBRu) and through Dikili (http://goo.gl/rBeiX) and Candarli (http://goo.gl/sOJrE) to Homeros near Izmir (http://goo.gl/DsgkL) where he will conclude his next book “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and
It took me a few days to recover from the goddess Athena’s thunder-bolting bombshell that I couldn’t quote the titillating and tantalizing remarks made to me by Zeus, her father and the king of all gods, until the publication of “The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on
Sometimes Athena, the crafty and cunning goddess who helped both Odysseus and The Idiot out of many scrapes during their Mediterranean odysseys, cracks me up. She really does. The other day she firmly instructed The Idiot to scale Turkey’s renowned Mount Ida for a Q&A with Zeus, her father who is
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