The Melville Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, brings together scholars, readers, and artists through the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author Herman Melville. www.melvillesociety.org
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New CFPs dropped for MLA 2027!
Find details and deadlines for our panels "Melville and Hawthorne Revisited" and "Melville and McCarthyism" at the link below.
Book bedazzling with the crew.
This is the optimal Moby-Dick reading experience.
Mark your programs for @the-ala.bsky.social!
"Melville and Justice": tomorrow (5/21) from 1-2:20 in Salon 1
"Entirely Idle: Melvillean Leisure, Laziness, and Labor": Friday (5/22) from 4-5:20 in Kimball
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okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
ExSQUEEZE me?!
ExSQUEEZE me?!
Those objectively correct children belong to the sea.
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.
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The Melville Society is proposing two panels for the 2027 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, to be held in Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027. This news item details the CFPs for “Melville and...
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The government said it will be BANNED because it is a “user-to-user platform who purpose is to enable social interaction.”
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
It's official! We're going to ALA!
Check out our two sponsored panels: "Melville and Justice," and "Entirely Idle: Melvillean Leisure, Laziness, and Labor."
See you in Chicago!
I don't know what I expected reading Moby Dick to be like but I'm excited every day to check in on my favorite scallywags and see what nautical hijinks they're getting up to
