Coming in 2026: Revisiting Olympus

I’m about to have a lot more time on my hands! This is going to be my last semester teaching at CU Boulder (for many reasons, which I’ll probably feel the need to explain in a blog post soon). It feels weird to contemplate a future where I’m not in the classroom, but it also feels exciting. I’m going to throw myself into the event-planning business I have with my family and do some remote work part time. More importantly, I’m going to go all-in on this writing stuff. Hopefully this means I’ll also have more time for my first love: reading.

So I have this idea for a series of blog posts where I read and review modern books based on Greek mythology, which I’ll call “Revisiting Olympus” (my original idea for a title, “Myth Takes,” has already been taken by a podcast. Honestly, I can’t blame them. That pun rocks). I’ll read these books, give them detailed reviews, and maybe even pit them against each other bracket-style!

You see, even before I wrote Sirens Go Off, classical reception was a particular interest of mine. I read Mary Renault’s The King Must Die and The Bull From the Sea when I was eight years old, and those books – and others like them – helped propel me into the field of Classics. Now, I’ve already read A LOT of modern literature that revisits Greek mythology (e.g. by Mary Renault, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker, Margarete George, Jennifer Saint, and Natalie Haynes). I do plan to reread those, but I also want some new stuff. So, if you’ve followed me this far, send me some recommendations! No middle-grade or YA, please (just my personal preference).

[Brad Pitt as Achilles in the film Troy. You’re welcome]

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