Southbank Centre to stage 4-day reading of Moby-Dick
The Southbank Centre has revealed its Autumn Literature Festival line-up and the centrepiece will be a four-day live reading of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Taking place over four evenings, the live… Read more »
Are the trailers for Ron Howard’s upcoming epic In The Heart of the Sea missing a hyphen?
Moby-Dick is a book that is very close to this publishing house’s heart, for obvious reasons. It’s also my favorite novel. (Bold choice, I know.) But there’s one thing in the… Read more »
“Nothing but tea”: eating one’s way through literature
When fictional characters sit down to eat, what does it look like? One dedicated graphic designer set out to cook, bake, scrounge, and otherwise recreate fifty fictional meals, and the… Read more »
Rare book auction includes the white whale of first editions
Now’s your chance to own the white whale of rare literature! A first edition copy of Moby-Dick: or, The Whale, including extremely rare white endpapers is up for auction at… Read more »
Movies you might not have known were written by novelists
Last week saw the highly-anticipated release of the film The Counselor, and since the film hit theaters on October 25th the reviews have been pouring in. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning… Read more »
The whaling adventure that inspired Moby-Dick heading to screens big and small
In November of 1820, the American whaling ship Essex sunk after being attacked by a gigantic sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean. The story of the ill-fated vessel, which… Read more »
Moby-Dick, the card game
Moby-Dick, the BBC historical drama; Moby-Dick, the interactive sing-along theatrical production; Moby-Dick, the beer; Moby-Dick, the felted version? Chalk up one more adaption for Herman Melville’s novel: Moby-Dick, the card… Read more »
Coming soon: new Moby-Dick adaptation (sort of)
Whales are big this spring—they’ve already been seen entrancing underwater paparazzi and invading the American Museum of Natural History. The BBC is also hooked: last week they announced plans for a new drama called… Read more »
Whale words
The word “whale” occurs 1,685 times in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. “Elijah” is there 15 times, “Ahab” 512, and “harpoon” 256 times. I know this not from dutiful reading, but because… Read more »
The Annotated Moby-Dick
GalleyCat reported yesterday on a project that’s looking to produce an annotated edition of Moby-Dick, with a campaign on Kickstarter to raise the funds to publish it. Chris Routledge is the… Read more »