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LQ in 2025: “Moby Dick” & The Sea
Our intermittent and ongoing series, collected.
Dec 31, 2025
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Episode 17: Queequeg and Ishmael in Love (with Alexander Chee, Aaron Sachs, and Caleb Crain)
Listen now | “There is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends,” Ishmael tells us . . .
Nov 7, 2025
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Episode 15: Elizabeth Kolbert
“There’s nothing more extraordinary than the world we live in,” says Elizabeth Kolbert . . .
Oct 10, 2025
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Episode 14: Charles Baxter on "The Sermon"
Listen now (57 mins) | “Father Mapple is in some strange, almost obscure way, a kind of negative double for Ahab,” says novelist and critic Charles…
Sep 26, 2025
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Episode 12: James Marcus on Emerson and Melville
Listen now | "I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all."
Aug 29, 2025
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Episode 11: Matthew Hollis on “The Seafarer”
Listen now | “This is a sea that will take your life,” says Matthew Hollis . . .
Aug 22, 2025
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Episode 10: "Loomings," with Francine Prose
Listen now (42 mins) | "It still is the greatest first sentence ever,” says Francine Prose...
Aug 8, 2025
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Episode 8: Herman Melville, Extracted (with Wyatt Mason)
Listen now (92 mins) | “There’s something I find strangely moving about …
Jul 25, 2025
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Episode 7: Daniel Mendelsohn and Lewis H. Lapham
Listen now (91 mins) | “In a famous episode, he says his name is Nobody,…
Jul 18, 2025
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