3 days ago by Emily Temple

Inspired by LA-based artist Zak Smith, whose superb project illustrating Gravity's Rainbow page by page was turned into a book in 2006, self-described non-artist Matt Kish thought he might try his hand at a similar feat — only instead of Pynchon, he decided to illustrate all 552 pages of Herman Melv ...

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5 days ago by Ti

Welcome to Moby Dick Monday! This is where we read four pages a day and then post about what we’ve read. Consider it an adventure of sorts! My Story Re-Cap: This was an interesting week of reading. Not a whole lot happened. Captains Peleg and Bildad give Queequeg a little harpooning test and Queeque ...

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5 days ago by nicole

After regaling you with mediocrity for the week (but I liked Mardi!), today we’ll have the most disappointing bit of the novel, for me. Melville really fails here. Now, there’s a lot you don’t know about because I haven’t mentioned (tons of blogging fodder if I’m still at it when I do a re-read), in ...

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5 days ago by nicole

I’ll give you a nicer bit of Mardian satire to show that Melville wasn’t only caught up in the minutiae of current affairs circa 1848. Perhaps my favorite is the story of the Mindarian sorcerers. If a Mindarian deemed himself aggrieved or insulted by a countryman, he forthwith repaired to one of the ...

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5 days ago by nicole

You would think, given Mardi’s status as the book that started Melville’s unpopularity, that contemporary critics panned it. Or at least, I had thought that they, along with Melville’s normal readers, felt betrayed by this turn into such strange and muddled territory. But according to the historical ...

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5 days ago by nicole

Melville’s first three books all begin with a sailorly transgression on the part of the narrator(/Melville figure). In Typee, which I knew to be at least somewhat autobiographical, I was so taken aback by the fact that it began with a runaway I had to immediately check whether that part was accurate ...

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5 days ago by nicole

Is Mardi a catastrophe? I don’t think I would go that far. It’s a mess, and not a success. It has me very excited to get to Moby-Dick again, but not any less excited about Melville’s other work. And (standard caveats about predicting the future here) I will certainly read it again at some point. Bet ...

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7 days ago by painting lessons

Author: Rick Chapo Source: articleage.com As the name suggests, tests, New Bedford Whaling National Park in a time before, when the America relief on oil for fuel. Whale oil was used to provide heat and light homes. While the use of oil is quite rare, certainly facilitate the whales, a visit to New ...

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7 days ago by ipc2000

The private library of some gentleman named William E. Self ( “Important English And American Literature”) was recently auctioned off at Christie’s. The highlights were items from Self’s (nearly positive we’re not talking about the basketball coach here) Poe (cue Troy McClure “One of our greatest wr ...

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7 days ago by Victoria

I’ve mentioned before my addiction to the Hugh Laurie characterization of P.G. Wodehouse’s quintessential dingaling, Bertie Wooster. Bertie is everything hopelessly one-sided about the British upper classes: white, male, rich, privileged, and a complete brainless gorm. He’s melodramatic, narcissisti ...

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