#20 Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Sophie becomes a big fat whale while Andrew struggles to remember any character in the novel he just read. Topics include the power of cultural touchstones, canonizing books and authors, why Moby Dick became such a highly praised classic, Harold Blooms thoughts on the subject, and more. 

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wordsworth edition): https://amzn.to/3Hbax6q (Amazon)

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