Some Sweet Moby-Dick Covers
Enjoy these excellent covers for Moby-Dick!
“Hunting Legend: And The Ocean Was Our Sky”
At Tor.com, Mahvesh Murad reviews Patrick Ness’ And The Ocean Was Our Sky. “This is a book about prejudices that lead to generations of hate and death; about who monsters are, and what makes them so; about loyalty and single minded, determined violent obsessions that can never end […]
That Time Ray Bradbury Adapted Moby-Dick as a Screenplay
Open Culture recounts the time Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for John Huston’s film, Moby-Dick (1956). “I got out of bed one morning in London, looked in the mirror, and said, ‘I am Herman Melville!’ I sat down at the typewriter, and in eight hours of passionate, red-hot […]
Heart of Darkness, A Drawing For Every Page
Tin House has published an edition of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness illustrated by Matt Kish, an interesting follow-up to Kish’s project, Moby-Dick In Pictures; One Drawing For Every Page. See more of Kish’s work here.
“Man the Mast-heads! Call All Mates!”
Beloved shipmates, Joe Hill has started a Moby-Dick big read along. The New Bedford Whaling Museum is holding its annual Moby-Dick Marathon today. And the Moby-Dick Big Read Podcast is still downloading a chapter a day with such dauntless readers as Tilda Swinton and ! It’s enough to […]
