Agreed! There will never been enough illustrated editions of Moby-Dick!

The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention! We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.

This beautiful art was sent to us anonymously and we want to remind you our DMs are always* open. *Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.

So I read Moby Dick for the first time this summer. I read it slowly, and I took a lot of notes (selections in the 🧵⬇️). I was motivated in part by learning more over the last few years about the 18th c spermaceti candle business of the Browns in our collections @jcblibrary.bsky.social. But also 1/

I saw JAWS for the first time this weekend and nobody had ever told me it was mostly just guys on a boat (i e Moby-Dick)

I can't believe people were just walking around in the 19th century saying "higgeldy-piggledy"

We are exactly 4 weeks away from the 2024 nomination deadline to submit nominations for the 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize. This year, we wanted to take a look back at some of the incredible work done by past winners. www.melvillesociety.org/the-hennig-c...

Please consider submitting or nominating articles and chapters on the works of Herman Melville published in 2024 for consideration for the Hennig Cohen Prize. Submission deadline is September 15th! See more details, including a list of past winners, at www.melvillesociety.org/the-hennig-c...

Nouvelle plongée dans la thèse de Jean Simon sur #HermanMelville, avec un oeil différent après les archives de la @melville-society.bsky.social, dont le natif de Béthune (Nord) est membre dès 1947 (!). Et le besoin soudain de mieux connaître ses frequentations parisiennes dans les années 20.

it's Melville's birthday, tag urself - (we're obviously the husk-inhusked meat in a nut)

Had a "Middlemarch" rumspringa last year, but still team "Moby-Dick." 🐳

oh, so we're starting THIS again, eh?

A day late and a dollar short, perhaps, but a quick note to say that I joined a group of Melville Scholars (@melville-society.bsky.social) last week in Connecticut to think about oceans (and Melville) at UConn-Avery Point and Mystic Seaport and it was wonderful and amazing! A few photos and ideas.

Soooo, after the Melville conference, I'm having a blast at the (very friendly I must say) #NewBedford Whaling Museum digging into the @melville-society.bsky.social Archives as a Bezanson fellow. You never know what you will step into, funny stuff

Fun fact: today's nephews learned this style of discourse from Moby-Dick

I thought this was a book about a whale and so far it’s a gay romance novel what the fuck

Oceanic Melville, the @melville-society.bsky.social conference, was magical! UConn's Avery Point campus was ideal to stay focused. Met many great great people (Melvilleans are the best, fact.), exchanged about comics, secularisation, queer studies, illustrations, etc. And what a cultural program!!!

Goodbye to misty Mystic and to sunny New Bedford, and so long to the jolly crew of fellow Mellvilleans! It's been a blast, as always... Thank you for these incredible conferences throughout the years! @melville-society.bsky.social 🐳🙏🏻

✨Look ye✨ whosoever of ye recruits me that same white whale 🐋 into my downline ⛵️, he shall have this gold ounce💰🤑, be your own boss, my boys💕!

A NEW HAND ENTERS THE BARREL

Moby-Dick always finds you when you least expect it.

Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me. This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal respect does the whale differ from other fish. Above, Linnæus has given you those items.

The great thing about Moby-Dick is that it takes all the hate out of your body and puts it in one leviathanic fish.

We’ve run the numbers and seen all the data models. It’s not looking good.

We are locked in.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🌶️🌶️ for the plot 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ for the illustrations Our summer beach reads are heating up. What should we read next?

charismatic macrofauna is totally our jam

Today's Poetry Daily is a batch of seven poems from Herman Melville featured in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies in 2007 Civil war epics, charismatic macrofauna, and Christmas cheer await you at @ProjectMUSE, free for all through 30 April muse.jhu.edu/article...

Our fave beach read! Tag three friends you want to squeeze into the very milk and sperm of kindness this summer and we’ll tell you which Moby-Dick character you are.

Deleting my Twitter before I go down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it.

Friends! The Hawthorne Society invited us to attend this -- and you can come too, of course. :)

You heard right, we've extended the deadline to MARCH 17th for submissions to our two CFPs for MLA 2026 panels "Thermal Melville" and "Melville and the Law" -- full details at the link! www.melvillesociety.org/news/melvill...

Deadline extended to March 17th for this CFP too!

The deadline's been extended to March 17th! There's still time to submit!

Hey don't forget about this hot (or cold, as you wish) CFP for MLA26 @c19americanists.bsky.social @melville-society.bsky.social

Still looking for submissions to this @melville-society.bsky.social MLA panel!

Listening to, rather than reading, Moby Dick during the diagram and whale encyclopedia chapters is weirder than realizing every chapter has different "hold my beer" energy. This is not a book. It is 25 genres in a trenchcoat.

Gosh, it feels like we just HAD an MLA convention, but if you're already thinking about the next one, consider our CFPs for MLA 2026 on "Thermal Melville" and "Melville and the Law": www.melvillesociety.org/news/melville-society-panels-mla-2026-cfp * deadline to submit proposals is MARCH 7th *

You can also find this CFP on our website at www.melvillesociety.org/news/melville-society-panels-mla-2026-cfp

"If you haven't read Moby-Dick, that's your first mistake!" Thanks for the morning laugh, @melville-society.bsky.social! Check out their @celj.bsky.social-award winning journal, Leviathan! muse.jhu.edu/issue/52401 Here's a free issue to get you started:

sorry that we have no idea how to caption audio in Bluesky (an attempt was made in the alt text) but this is too good:

Feminism is interpreting Moby-Dick as a gay romance despite every time it tries to make it something else, and I will be taking no questions.

if you think you're being all clever reading this as a double entrende, let me assure you that all you are doing is exactly what ol Herm wanted. There are no accidents in this masterpiece.

Our friends at the Met Opera wanted to invite all of you to the Metropolitan Opera company premiere of Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, running March 3-29, newly enlarged and refined following acclaimed runs in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Learn more at metopera.org/mobydick

Rereading Moby-Dick for the first time in a few years, and it is so wild that anyone ever thought Middlemarch was better than this

Amid and despite *all this* (this is fine), I'll be visiting Northwestern University tomorrow to give a talk on Moby-Dick, metaphors, and my favorite cetacean art of the last several years by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Wu Tsang, and mayfield brooks. Chicagoans I'd love to see you!

[everybody:] “Nate, please don’t try to make this about Moby-Dick. Not everything is about Moby-Dick!” [white whale with eerie degree of sentience abruptly upsets seemingly-dominant American industry, staging complex allegory of the ends of empire:]

Sorry this is late. I got a real job and have been cutting back my hours at the shitpost factory. Anyways, here's Pierre doing Hot To Go.