I stand with @melville-society.bsky.social on this one! Moby Dick is in my top 5 of all time and I will defend Ishmael's long discourse on cetology to anyone at anytime.
Ben Balas
ExSQUEEZE me?!
The Melville Society
The annual “Moby-Dick” Marathon reading, held at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, is a radical act—and a profound kind of literary patriotism, James Parker argues.
It’s an all-analog mass redreaming of a flawed American gospel: superbly countercultural.
