Themes & Projects

Mysteries, December 2008–January 2009

Maritime literature, January–March 2009

Melville read-through, part I, TypeeWhite-Jacket, December 2009–January 2010

Whirlwind tour of Russian literature, February–May 2010

Epistolary literature, July 2009–June 2010

Melville read-through, part II, Moby-DickBilly Budd, July–September 2010

The Unstructured Clarel Readalong, August–September 2010

The Art of the Novella Challenge, August 2011

The bibliographing Reading Challenge, January 2011–present



Authors

Nautical Notes

News in brief:

  • The New Yorker Book Bench does a weekly covers contest, where they crop out a cover detail from four books for people to identify. Alison tipped me off that today’s was “Nautical Miles to Go”, a theme we thought I might be good at. And I was—I actually won! (She helped.) See how well you can do.

  • In semi-related news, I just found out via Twitter that Amazon sold out of the much-evangelized-around-these-parts A High Wind in Jamaica after its being talked up on NPR. So if any of y’all need more reasons to read it…

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