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Whether you love Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, hate it or have never read it, you may find yourself unable to escape it. Even for a classic, it shows surprising reach, having inspired and influenced numerous authors, artists and scholars, historical and contemporary. Published in 1851, it continues to be deconstructed, reconstructed, analyzed, interpreted, adapted and added to, with one example of a literary spin-off being Tara Karr Roberts' debut Wild and Distant Seas, which follows four generations of women linked to the book's main character Ishmael. Below are just a few of the many other pieces of writing, both short and long, fiction and non-fiction, that interact with or cast their gaze on Melville's iconic novel.
One work that emphasizes the volume and depth of Moby-Dick and Melville scholarship in existence is Dayswork (2023) by acclaimed novelist Chris Bachelder and award-winning poet Jennifer Habel. In this unique book of fiction that includes many intriguing factual ...
