AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
3min chapter
474 Herman Melville
The History of Literature
The Importance of Moby Dick
Melville said the whole book was in his brain. He just had to scrape it out. Hawthorne, who read the pages in manuscript and did much to advise Melville during the writing of Moby Dick, had a lot to do with that. The style is maniacal, mad as a march hare. And yet it's an endlessly fascinating book Moby Dick is. You can project a lot onto it, find a lot there. It doesn't hand you everything. Yes, let it all unfurl. Let that literary freak flag fly.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode