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I recently was forced to move masses of books off and then later back onto their shelves for a carpet cleaning project, and it occurred to...

by Carollyne Hutter Herman Melville said: “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.” In her young adult novel Stee...

I thought this was an amusing report from attending a marathon reading of Moby-Dick : ...The inaugural event occurred in 2012 and took ...

Everyone loves a list, and today I'm featured on Shelf-Awareness with a list of some of my favorite books and bookish opinions, includi...

What are you reading this summer? I love talking about books, so I was pleased to be invited to share my summer reading ideas with The Wash...

Okay, last week was true confessions for me: the Important Works I had not read that I should read. (In case you’re wondering, both The Roa...

I’m absurdly excited that the Washington National Opera will be putting on a production of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” next year at the Kenne...

Oh, how I love the continued and coincidental reappearance of Moby-Dick in my life this week, though admittedly this new example is a rath...

In the past couple of summers, I’ve assigned myself a Big Book to read, first Moby-Dick , and the next year The Portrait of a Lady .   I wa...

If you read this blog with any regularity or know me, you may have noticed that I spend a great deal of time bemoaning the fact that I seem...

Yesterday was dubbed The Day of Me.   I was the one who dubbed it this, of course, because in a scheduling glitch, I gave my craft lecture i...

Thank you, Washington Post Magazine, for going against all conventional wisdom and publishing short stories a couple of times a year.   Sun...

Thar she blows…Nathaniel Philbrick has a new book out called Why Read Moby-Dick ?, and I’m immediately putting it on my list.   He’s the aut...

You may remember that my summer reading project last year was Melville’s Moby-Dick (which I LOVED, of course). Tonight, the Encore network ...

Last summer, I gave myself the big reading project of reading Moby-Dick for the first time, and the book shaped my summer. I loved the expa...

Hmm…I wonder who might appreciate this shirt? You read more about this fabulous garment here: http://www.outofprintclothing.com/ProductDeta...

Whew…I’m still not recovered from the big conference, but if I don’t write this up now, I probably never will, especially since I have a ton...