Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast
A chapter by chapter breakdown of the greatest, weirdest American novel, "Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale." Theme song by Noam Hassenfeld.
Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast
Chapters 17 & 18: "The Ramadan" and "His Mark"
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Talia Lavin
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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Despite some technical audio difficulties, Talia chats to historian Eric Rauchway about two chapters that are delightfully heavy on Queequeg. We discuss the tiki craze of mid-20th century America, Melville's experiences in Tahiti, snuggling, and whether hell was really born of an undigested apple dumpling.