he is daniel mendelson and he has stood up here on two other joyous occasions.in 2000 he was the recipient of the nbcc's nona blakian citation in excellence in reviewing. and in 2007 his memoir, the lost a search of 6 of 6 million received the nbcc award for autobiography. mendelson's other books include the 1999 memoir, the elusive embrace, desire and the riddle of identity. the 2002 scholarly study gender and the city in the political plays and in 2009, his two-volume translation of the poetry of cp kavassi. academically trained as a classist he currently occupies the charles right handlet flint chair in humanities at bart college. mendelson has published more than 60 pieces in the new york review of books many of them collected in this 2008 book how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. his first appearance in the new york review occurred on april 27th, 2000, with a discussion of ted hughes translation of a book. his subjects have range judicial district from arastpnes and horace to tennessee williams, and mel brooks. because of his extensive assoc