Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
TV News: Miniseries has same team as 'Sea Wolf' -- Germany’s Tele Muenchen Gruppe is setting off to sea again, this time with an English-language adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick.”
reader of depressing books (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
A "free sample" of SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL : "The public attorney stared at Sam." *Embedded promotion* Coldfront reviewed cognitive-behavioral therapy. *Embedded promotion* *Embedded promotion* Herman Melville roommate, haha. *Embedded promotion*
Wired (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
: When a giant sperm whale rammed a whaling vessel in 1820, the deadly encounter inspired Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick . Melville's story, inspired by real-life man-versus-beast mayhem from the 1800s, made it to movie screens in the 1950s. Director John Huston's Moby Dick was evidence of Hollywood's growing fascination with giant, thrashing creatures. Here are some of the best beasties...
Wired (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
1820: The whaling ship Essex is rammed and sunk by a sperm whale 2,000 miles off the west coast of South America. The ordeal of the crew inspires Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick . The Essex was an aging vessel from Nantucket, which at the time possessed the largest whaling fleet in the world. The three-masted ship was 87 feet long and weighed 238 tons. She was captained by George Pollard Jr....
Dark Party Review (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor Debut Packs Many Surprises “The Guards” (2001) is a genre mystery in much the same way that “Moby-Dick” is a book about whale hunting. That’s about as far as I’ll go comparing the monstrous, densely written classic by Herman Melville and the Spartan poetic prose of Ken Bruen. On the surface, there’s no reason why “The Guards” should work. The novel introduces us to
findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
On Nov. 14, 1851, Herman Melville’s epic narrative of the great white whale debuted on the American literary scene, meeting mixed reviews and tepid sales.
Rhapsodyinbooks's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
With the opening sentence “Call me Ishmael,” this story has influenced generations since its inception. Ishmael is a sailor who signs onto a whaling boat along with his friend Queequeg, in spite of warnings from a wandering prophet named Elijah. Captain Ahab, the ship’s captain, is only obsessed with finding Moby Dick, a [...]
Utter Wonder (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
On this day 157 years ago Herman Melville published Moby Dick. I've never read the book, but I understand it is about a whale and stuff. I've seen the movie Orca, so that's good enough for me. At any rate,...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
On this day in 1851, Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was published. Read more about today in history....
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
"Call me Ishmael." So opens one of the literary classics of the English language, Moby-Dick , which was published in New York on this date in 1851. Written by Herman Melville , the novel tells of the obsession of Captain Ahab: to kill the great white whale which had ripped off his leg. Definition rip sth off (REMOVE) phrasal verb [M] to remove something very quickly and carelessly: They ripped off...
Paperholic (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
… and: He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics, has read every Harry Potter book, and he promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn’t… ( ) … and… Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know (a list, Telegraph.co.uk, November 11) ShareThis
The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Here are the 50 facts you might now know about Barack Obama . For example, I did not know these facts: He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics He has read every Harry Potter book He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician He uses an Apple Mac laptop His speciality...
baithak (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity—doing something truly creative, we’re inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, “Citizen Kane,” at twenty-five. Herman Melville wrote a book a year through his late twenties, culminating, at age thirty-two, with “Moby-Dick.” Mozart wrote his breakthrough...
MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The question of whether to choose an official book for Massachusetts made for a whale of a debate. The state’s House of Representatives passed a bill naming Herman Melville’s "Moby-Dick" the state's official “epic novel.”
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Philip Hoare is obsessed with whales. Not only that, he's obsessed with a fictional character, Captain Ahab, obsessed with a fictional whale, Moby-Dick; plus he's obsessed with the writer, Herman Melville, who created that landmark of American literature.
