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January 2019
23rd Annual Moby-Dick Marathon
This event includes a pre-marathon dinner and an illustrated discussion “Gender and the Man’s World of Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville Scholar Jennifer Baker (5:30 - 9pm Friday); Stump the Scholars with Melville Society Project members (10am - 1pm Saturday); Children’s Moby-Dick Marathon in which kids of all ages can read a section of an abridged version by Classic Starts (10am Saturday);the 4th Annual Portuguese Mini-Marathon, a reading of Tiago Patricio’s abridged version in Portuguese (3pm Saturday); and The Main Attraction,…
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24th Annual Moby-Dick Marathon
This event includes a pre-marathon dinner and a lively presentation and Q&A with Mary K. Bercaw, Melville Scholar, titled Herman Melville: Sailor, Writer, Metaphysician (5:30 - 8pm Friday); Stump the Scholars with Melville Society Project members (9:30am - 1pm Saturday); Children’s Moby-Dick Marathon (10am Saturday); the 5th Annual Portuguese Mini-Marathon; a 24-hour read-a-thon of America’s most iconic novel (12pm Saturday - 12pm Sunday), and more.
Find out more »January 2022
The 2022 Moby-Dick Marathon
This year’s reading of Herman Melville’s classic will be entirely virtual, but that won’t stop literary aficionados, school children, and everyone in between from traveling back in time to accompany narrator Ishmael on the epic hunt for the elusive white whale. The event features the main 25-hour read-a-thon on Saturday and Sunday, with fun Melville-inspired activities, opportunities to chat with scholars from the Melville Society Cultural Project, a Melville-inspired trivia game, and more. The Marathon will be…
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