Podcasts de hermanmelville

Prologue: So What Do We Know About Moby-Dick?

We're ready to set sail with plenty of whale puns... Don't have your book yet? The Library...

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Who exactly is this Ishmael guy?

This week we realize that running off to sea and adopting a nome-de-mer is usually a sign that...

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Our Cast Is Introduced, and We are Underwhelmed...

180 pages in, and we've barely left port... This week we discussed knowing that we're reading a...

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To read all of Melville's Cetology, or to skip that chapter...

Who got the gold star for reading all about whale-fish, including the footnotes? Who is actually...

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Herman "Not Suble" Melville

In discussing chapters 42-59, we mentioned  "The Card Turner," a YA novel by Louis Sachar....

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Whaling: Not for the faint of heart

This week we tackled the most action packed reading yet, chapters 60-70, in which we encountered...

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Stuck in the Doldrums with Melville

In chapters 71-86, no amount of action could keep us from feeling sedated by the seemingly...

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Whale Bones Are Not Made of Ivory

This week, half of Arlington is on vacation, so Jennie and Pete set sail on their own. The two...

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Ahab Turns Up the Insanity

The gang's all back in town again! In this week's discussion of chapters 102-121, we contemplate...

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The End!

And so we come to the conclusion of our voyage... was the destination worth the ride? Opinions...

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Bonus Moby-Dick episode: Interview with Richard King, author of "Ahab's Rolling Sea"

As a special post-Moby-Dick bonus, Jennie and Megan previewed the new book, "Ahab's Rolling Sea:...

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