Sophie becomes a big fat whale while Andrew struggles to remember any character in the novel he just read. Topics include the power of cultural touchstones, canonizing books and authors, why Moby Dick became such a highly praised classic, Harold Bloom's thoughts on the subject, and more.
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wordsworth edition): https://amzn.to/3YDdmGK
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Penguin edition): https://amzn.to/43mxIXe
Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories by Herman Melville: https://amzn.to/42NpO9d
More Books by Herman Melville: https://amzn.to/451CdYx
Harold Bloom’s Lecture on Moby Dick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFt59_E_g5s
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