It's true that the 200th anniversary of the birth of Herman Melville was Thursday, August 1, but it's always a good day to celebrate our Moby Dick author. If you're out of cake, take a few minutes to read two very worthwhile articles published this week:- Philip Hoare of The Guardian writes that our summer challenge title is the "Mt. Everest of literature" and goes on to explain why it's a mountain worth climbing in Subversive, Queer and Terrifyingly Relevant: Six Reasons Why Moby-Dick Is the Novel for Our Times
- Gabrielle Bellot of Literary Hub gives voice to the difficulties in coming to terms with the motifs of blackness and whiteness we discussed last week in The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of Moby Dick
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