Chasing the White Whale:
The Moby-Dick Marathon; or, What Melville Means Today

Related Web Links

Melville’s Optimism

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/navigating-past-nihilism/

Melville's Poetry on the Crisis with the South

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/misgivings/

Washington Post Book Reviewer, Ron Charles, talks about Moby-Dick

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/09/22/VI2010092201878.html

Moby-Dick and the BP Oil Spill

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/weekinreview/13kennedy.html

Tea Party contre Moby Dick

http://www.dedefensa.org/article-tea_party_contre_moby_dick__14_10_2010.html

New Bedford Moby-Dick Marathon Reading (video)

http://vimeo.com/8897939

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF4SK8FNxNc

Moby-Dick Marathon Reading in Mystic Seaport (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EHl16Zr6GE

Moby-Dick Marathon Reading in Gallery Zaum, Newport, KY (video)

http://vimeo.com/8897939

iPad Censorship of Moby-Dick

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/04/ibooks-censortron-do.html

Ahab and Nerdcore

http://henryjenkins.org/2008/06/mc_lars_ahab_and_nerdcore.html

Rewriting Moby-Dick in Emoticons

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10377272-71.html

Moby-Dick Lounge Photograph

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-4C8tumkjts/SY3iKS2jWHI/AAAAAAAAA8U/vFprXX-vjzA/s320/Butler_Moby_Dick_Lounge.jpg

Mastodon

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/b/0/15777/15777129_leviathanwf3.jpg

Japanese Anime

http://www.mania.com/hakugei-legend-moby-dick-vol-3_article_78029.html

One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick

http://www.everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/

Moby-Dick the Musical

http://mobydickthemusical.com/moby_dick!.htm

Moby-Dick Opera

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/05/04/DD101D8M6R.DTL

Led Zepplin’s Moby-Dick

http://www.popmusicology.com/images/moby-dick-was-a-big-angry-whale1.jpg

Melville’s view of Mt. Greylock from his study at Arrowhead

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/destamer_berkshires.html?c=y&page=4

2001 Moby-Dick Marathon Reading Photograph

http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/01-07/01-04-07/0104moby.jpg.jpg

Quantitative research on Moby-Dick: word frequency

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2009/12/16/paul-taylor/me-call-ishmael/#more-2676

Moby-Dick Poster

http://flavorwire.com/56635/one-drawing-for-every-page-of-moby-dick-book-art

Moby-Dick Marathon Blog

http://www.danielharper.org/blog/?tag=moby-dick-marathon

Melville as Poet

http://hermanmelvillepoet.org/

Review of Andrew Delbanco’s Melville Biography

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051205/gornick/single

Wyn Kelley on Obama and Moby-Dick

http://henryjenkins.org/2009/01/loomings_2009.html

American Icons on Moby-Dick, including Tony Kushner

http://www.studio360.org/americanicons/episodes/2006/08/18

Online Annotated Moby-Dick

http://www.powermobydick.com/

Melville’s Marginalia

http://www.boisestate.edu/melville/IntroFrameset.html

Cultural Fallout of Moby-Dick (since July 2008)

http://www.powermobydick.com/Moby151.html

Greil Marcus on Moby-Dick

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/09/moby-dick-book-ishmael

Whales Bands

http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/whale-bands-what-you-need-to-know

Review of Moby-Dick in Half the Time

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200909/?read=article_searls

Moby-Dick on Television

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009247.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=25

Moby-Dick in Emoji, Japanese Text-Messaging Language

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/09/the-revolution-will-be-crowdsourced-and-cute.html

Moby-Dick, Pornography, and Censorship

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/09/18/thanks-a-lot-vigilante-censor-who-owned-my-copy-of-moby-dick-before-me

Moby-Dick in Commercials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXu8MO7JkvA

Baseball Jerseys of Ahab and Moby-Dick

http://www.novel-t.com/roster1.htm

Rockwell Kent Illustrated Moby-Dick T-Shirt

http://www.outofprintclothing.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=B-1009

Ishmael The Comedian

http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/1/9wayne.html

Melville Inspired Tattoos

http://www.cetaarts.us/photos/queequeghisownperson1.jpg

http://www.stevengoetzphotography.com/blog/?p=467

“I’m in Herman Melville’s House and I’m Drunk!”

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jan/04/entertainment/ca-herman-melville4

On Not Finishing Moby-Dick

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-0221-lit-life-20100221,0,442662,print.column

Tattoo inspired novel covers

http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/02/23/penguin-gets-tatted-up-with-new-penguin-inks-series/

Poster Map of the Pequod’s Voyage

http://www.kpiercefield.com/index.php?option=comwrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=72

Ahab vs. Moby-Dick: The Video Game

http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009/07/ahab-vs-moby-dick-game-link-roundup.html

Moby-Dick in the High School Curriculum

http://www.novel-t.com/roster1.htm

Rockwell Kent Illustrations of Moby-Dick

http://organizations.plattsburgh.edu/museum/rka_myown1.htm
  
http://organizations.plattsburgh.edu/museum/rka_booki.htm

Review of Rinde Eckert’s And God Created Great Whales

http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=4297

Laurie Anderson, Stanley Crouch, David Ives, Elizabeth Shultz, and Tony Kushner on the White Whale

http://www.studio360.org/americanicons/episodes/2006/08/18

Sena Jeter Naslund’s Ahab’s Wife

http://www.amazon.com/Ahabs-Wife-Star-gazer-Novel-P-S/dp/0061767654/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242148285&sr=8-3

Sheridan Hay’s The Secret of Lost Things [Novel about the recovery of Isle of the Cross]

http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lost-Things-Novel/dp/038551848X

Review of Film, Thumbsucker

http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Thumbsucker

Captain Ahab, the band

http://www.captain-ahab.com/

http://www.captain-ahab.com/index.php/?page_id=2

Film Adaptations of Moby-Dick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Moby-Dick

Beckmambetov’s Film Adaptation of Moby-Dick

http://www.variety.com/VR1117992634.html

http://io9.com/5333726/wanted-director-hunts-a-superpowered-white-whale

TNT Film Adaptation of Moby-Dick

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120756/

Review of Television Show Mad Men

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/10/27/mad-men-the-moby-dick-of-our-time-plus-season-two-finale-recap.aspx

Legislation Passed Making Moby-Dick Official Novel of Massachusetts

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/10/q_a_sizing_up_a.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed7

Republican Language and Captain Ahab

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_wood

Musician Moby

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/08/moby/

John Majiro and Antebellum American Whaling

http://www.manjiro.org/reconsider.html

John Manjiro Museum

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090509a9.html

Whales at Scripp’s Institute of Oceanography

http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/Exhibits/Voices_in_the_Sea/

Leviathan Melvillei, Ancient Whale

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/06/30/behold-leviathan-the-sperm-whale-that-killed-other-whales/

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7302/full/nature09067.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10461066.stm

Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/oceans/whale-defenders

New Bedford Whaling Museum Moby-Dick Marathon Reading

http://www.whalingmuseum.org/prog/marathon.html

Mystic Seaport Moby-Dick Marathon Reading

http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=C9BFB69A-0880-5573-4D9E04FA17BE18E8

World’s First Seaworthy Antebellum Whaling Vessel

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/science/17ship.html?_r=1&hp

Anthony Caleshu on Moby-Dick

http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2008/caleshu2.html

Philip Hoare’s cultural history of whales, from Moby-Dick to Free Willy; The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061976216/The_Whale/index.aspx

Whale Chart

http://www.historyshots.com/WhaleChart/index.cfm

Emily Dickinson’s Garden and Marathon Reading

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/arts/design/30dickinson.html