The friend I read Melville with (and other historical fiction) and I are planning on his "Israel Potter" this summer, his retelling of someone else's autobiography of his time in the Revolutionary War and afterwards.
But right now I am reading Alexis Hall's "Hell's Heart", his retelling of Moby-Dick that just came out. It is wild, as you might imagine.
And thanks to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein talking about Moby-Dick on Bluesky, I have another book ABOUT Moby-Dick to add to my list, Hester Blum's "The View From the Masthead".
I guess it is just Moby-Dick all the way down, right now.
The friend I read Melville with (and other historical fiction) and I are planning on his "Israel Potter" this summer, his retelling of someone else's autobiography of his time in the Revolutionary War and afterwards.
But right now I am reading Alexis Hall's "Hell's Heart", his retelling of Moby-Dick that just came out. It is wild, as you might imagine.
And thanks to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein talking about Moby-Dick on Bluesky, I have another book ABOUT Moby-Dick to add to my list, Hester Blum's "The View From the Masthead".
I guess it is just Moby-Dick all the way down, right now.