PequodPod

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into the first half of Chapter 3 of Moby-Dick : The Spouter-Inn. In this portion of the chapter, Ishmael enters the Spouter-Inn, gets driven distracted by a boggy, soggy, squitchy picture, checks out a hunk named Bulkington, and is gener...

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. *SPOILERS for Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno* In this episode, we interview our special guest Naima Karczmar about her Leviathan article “Encyclopedic Raciality: Geo-Ethnographic Speculation in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.” Naima is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, where she works on racial ep...

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into Chapter 2 of Moby-Dick : The Carpet-Bag. In this chapter, Ishmael pokes around New Bedford looking for a not-too-jolly place to spend the night. If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by j...

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into the actual beginnings of Moby-Dick : the Etymology and Extracts sections. These are extremely interesting and not to be skipped or glossed over. If you enjoy the show, please consider helping us defray the costs of making it by join...

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. In this pilot episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles sound the depths of Chapter 1 of  Moby-Dick , Loomings. We recognize that this is by no means the start of the book, and our next episode, Episode 0, is on the Etymology and Extracts. If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the...