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“Herman Melville”— Conrad Aiken
“Herman Melville” by Conrad Aiken: ‘My towers at last!’— What meant the word from what acknowledged circuit sprung and in the heart and on the tongue at sight of few familiar birds when seaward his...
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Moby-Dick(s)
These are (as near as I can tell) all the versions (translations, if you will) of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick at our house. This is my beloved copy, a hardback Signet Classic edition that’s the size...
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Literary Recipes
Fat Kitchen, Jan Steen *** Enjoy Thanksgiving with our menu of literary recipes: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Turkey Twelve Ways Zora Neale Hurston’s Mulatto Rice Ian McEwan’s Fish Stew James Joyce’s Burnt...
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Journal entry, December 25, 1854 (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
December 25th.–Commodore P—- called to see me this morning,–a brisk, gentlemanly, offhand, but not rough, unaffected, and sensible man, looking not so elderly as he ought, on account of a very well...
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Maurice Sendak’s Erotic Illustrations for Herman Melville’s Pierre (Book...
Pierre, Herman Melville’s follow up to Moby-Dick, was, without a doubt, the most challenging, perplexing, befuddling book I read in school. I still don’t get it. Still, I love Melville, and I love...
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Moby-Dick (Alasdair Gray’s Lanark)
It is a relief to turn to the honest American book about the whale. A captain wants to kill it because the last time he tried to do that it bit off his leg while escaping. He embarks with a...
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Herman Melville Paper Doll
Herman Melville paper doll by Tim Foley. Tagged: Art, Herman Melville, literary dolls, Literature, paper doll
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Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, November 1851 — Herman Melville
My Dear Hawthorne, — People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day’s work, and then come to sit down in a...
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Melville Cover — Robert Gibbings
Tagged: Art, Herman Melville, Robert Gibbings, Typee, Wood engraving
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A Bunch of Literary Recipes
Enjoy Thanksgiving with this menu of literary recipes: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Turkey Twelve Ways Gordon Lish’s Chicken Soup Zora Neale Hurston’s Mulatto Rice Ian McEwan’s Fish Stew James Joyce’s Burnt...
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“Merry Christmas” (Moby-Dick)
“Merry Christmas” from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship’s riggers, and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and after the...
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Queequeg in His Coffin — Bill Sienkiewicz
Tagged: Art, Bill Sienkiewicz, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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Read Herman Melville’s story “The Fiddler”
“The Fiddler” by Herman Melville So my poem is damned, and immortal fame is not for me! I am nobody forever and ever. Intolerable fate! Snatching my hat, I dashed down the criticism, and rushed out...
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Three Books
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. First edition trade paperback by The University of California Press, based on the 1979 Arion Press edition. Cover illustration by Barry Moser. I have too many copies of...
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Map of the world, showing major whaling grounds and the inferred track of the...
Tagged: Barry Moser, Herman Melville, illustration, Maps, Moby-Dick
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Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a bunch of literary recipes and a Bosch painting
Enjoy Thanksgiving with this menu of literary recipes: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Turkey Twelve Ways Gordon Lish’s Chicken Soup Zora Neale Hurston’s Mulatto Rice Ian McEwan’s Fish Stew James Joyce’s Burnt...
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The Punctuation of Moby-Dick
(Design by Nicholas Rougeux; via). Tagged: Design, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Nicholas Rougeux
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Misgivings (Herman Melville/Antonio Frasconi)
From On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the poems of Herman Melville. Edited, and with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Noonday Press, 1971. Tagged: Antonio Frasconi, Art, Herman Melville, Poetry,...
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Three Books
Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville. First edition hardback, Harper Collins, 1995. Color illustrations, many blatantly erotic, including the cover, by Maurice Sendak (in the mood of Billy...
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