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 23-25: "The Lee Shore," "The Advocate," "Postscript"
•
Talia Lavin
•
Season 1
•
Episode 15
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Talia talks with Adam Serwer, staff writer at the Atlantic, about three of the wildest and most delightful chapters in Moby-Dick: The Lee Shore, the Advocate, and Postscript. We talk about May Day, and Melville's passionate argument for the dignity of the common laborer; whether monarchs were truly anointed with whale oil; un-alienated whaling labor; essential workers; and more. "Drive down your hat in presence of the Czar, and take it off to Queequeg!"