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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: Today I talked to Hester Blum, editor of a new edition of Moby-Dick (Oxford UP, 2022)."It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this."Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and w...