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Some snapshots of day 1! #mdmnyc #frankstella @whitneymuseum. We're here til 10PM tonight. Day 2 starts at 11AM sharp with reading by Salman Rushdie.

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Full schedule now posted! Check out the 140 artists, writers, curators, editors, and more who are bringing life to Moby-Dick this weekend at @whitneymuseum. Fri & Sat, 11/13-14, 11AM-10PM+.

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Coming up, this weekend!

Moby-Dick: A Marathon Reading, A collaboration between the Whitney Museum of American Art and Moby-Dick Marathon NYC Friday, November 13, 11am–10pm, & Saturday, November 14, 11am–finish, 2015

Whitney Museum, 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, Floor Five, Neil Bluhm Family Galleries

Free with Museum admission. No special tickets or reservations are required.

In dialogue with Frank Stella’s Moby Dick series, artists, and writers will read Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale in the Whitney’s fifth-floor galleries. The two-day event culminates on the 164th anniversary of the novel’s publication in the U.S.

The event is occasioned by @whitneymuseum‘s exhibition Frank Stella: A Retrospective which includes some of the works from Stella’s series inspired by the novel, an epic 12 year project that includes one work for each chapter. At the same time, the Whitney’s new location on Gansevoort Street (Melville being a descendant of the Gansevoorts for whom the street was named) resonates deeply with the themes and setting of the book, and gives us a chance to celebrate Melville’s profound impact on generations of artists and writers.

The schedule will be posted shortly!

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Moby-Dick: A Marathon Reading, A collaboration between the Whitney Museum of American Art and Moby-Dick Marathon NYC Friday, November 13, 11am–10pm, & Saturday, November 14, 11am–finish, 2015

Whitney Museum, 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, Floor Five, Neil Bluhm Family Galleries

Free with Museum admission. No special tickets or reservations are required.

In dialogue with Frank Stella’s Moby Dick series, artists, and writers will read Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale in the Whitney’s fifth-floor galleries. The two-day event culminates on the 164th anniversary of the novel’s publication in the U.S.

The event is occasioned by @whitneymuseum‘s exhibition Frank Stella: A Retrospective which includes some of the works from Stella’s series inspired by the novel, an epic 12 year project that includes one work for each chapter. At the same time, the Whitney’s new location on Gansevoort Street (Melville being a descendant of the Gansevoorts for whom the street was named) resonates deeply with the themes and setting of the book, and gives us a chance to celebrate Melville’s profound impact on generations of artists and writers.

The schedule will be posted shortly!

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Does it still count as a book read this year if you started it 15 years ago? Since then my blue-and-silver copy of “Moby-Dick” has been a Ph.D. exam text, a guilt-inducing dust-gatherer on the bedside-table stack, and — in its last and best incarnation — the world’s most felicitously worded beach read, reserved exclusively for summer vacation and loved without guilt or ambition. Finishing it this August was the highlight of my literary year.

Dana Stevens in What’s the Best Book, New or Old, You Read This Year? - NYTimes.com

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"Moby Dick is full of stuff you're likely to miss out on if you're not reading it out loud: assonance and consonance and alliteration and puns. These are the kinds of things that are amplified in a book when you're reading it communally: you notice someone sitting up a little bit straighter at a particular turn of phrase (there was this one, on Sunday afternoon: "like the grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch"); someone leans over to show his friend the illustration in his book of a whale breaching; someone laughs and you realize, Oh right, that was a joke. All of which is to say that Melville's writing wasn't necessarily written to be read aloud, but it's the kind of writing that rewards a live audience."

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Moby Dick Marathon Reading in NYC in November

There’s no marathon reading like it. Over 150 talented writers, actors and artists read Moby Dick aloud continuously for three days. 

Moby­ Dick Marathon NYC returns for Second Biennial Reading, November 14, 15, and 16, 2014 at the Ace Hotel New York, South Street Seaport Museum, and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Come watch over 150 readers, including Touré, jamiatt, Phil Klay, Téa Obreht, Nathaniel Philbrick, whatwouldlynnetillmando, Alex Karpovsky, MattKish, Leslie Jamison, and many more. 

Organized by the wonderful amandabullock, mollyrosequinn and Polly Kertis. 

Learn more at mobydickmarathonnyc.org. Be there! We will be. 

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(via Moby-Dick Marathon NYC takes over South Street Seaport, Housing Works, Ace Hotel)

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Weird whale words from our guide for readers

We sent this email out to readers to help them prepare, and they enjoyed it so much we wanted to share with everyone! Some “practice” words for strangeness/archaicness and pronunciation, not required obviously, this isn't a spelling test, but I think some people would be interested and I had fun looking them up. Get ready for a lot of great alliteration when reading!

    Ahab

    Bildad

    Daggoo

    Father Mapple

    Fedallah

    Ishmael

    Mrs Hussey

    Peleg

    Pequod

    Queequeg

    Stubb

    Tashtego

    Ahasuerus

    Arsacides

    Cape Tormentoso

    Coenties Slip

    Duodecimoes

    Ehrenbreitstein

    Euroclydon

    Himmalehan

    Hosea

    Hyperborean

    Melancthon

    Mephistophelean

    Monongahela

    Parsee

Whale and weird words!

    abstemious

    acerbites

    ambergris

    amphitheatrical

    antediluvian

    anti-scorbutic

    apoplectic

    apoplexy

    apotheosis

    argosy

    astern

    athwartships

    avast

    azimuth

    ballast

    belike, bespeak, bestir, bethink, betoken

    benignity

    bilge

    bivouacks

    brevet

    bulkhead

    bulwarks

    cabalistically-cut coat

    calabash

    calomel

    camphorated

    cannikin

    capstan

    catarrh

    caterwaul

    celerity

    cenotaph

    cetacea

    cetacean

    cetology

    chamois

    circumambient

    circumambulate

    concupiscent

    corpusants

    cosset

    cozening

    cudgelling

    curvetting

    demogorgon

    demoniac

    diademed

    dietetically

    double-darbies

    dromedary

    durst

    dyspepsia

    ebonness

    ecliptics

    effeminacy

    effulgences

    effulgent

    execrations

    farrago

    farthingale

    fathoms

    felonious

    festoon

    flensing

    fossiliferous

    freshet

    galliot-toed

    gamboge ghost

    gnomon-like

    goney

    grampus

    grandissimus

    grapnel

    grego

    gudgeons

    gurry

    habergeon

    halyard

    harponeer

    hawser

    helm

    hermaphroditical

    hoary

    hooroosh

    howdah

    huzzar

    ignominy

    imperturbable

    impetuousness

    imprecate

    incognita

    inculcating

    insatiate

    intemperately

    interregnum

    isinglass

    jalap

    kannakin

    kelson

    larboard

    laudanum

    legerdemain

    leviathan

    luff

    lugubrious

    maelstrom

    magniloquent

    marlingspike

    meridian

    mizzen

    monomaniac

    multitudinously

    mutineer

    Negro

    nonce

    oakum

    obsequious

    obstreperously

    orison

    orlop

    orotund

    osseous

    palavering

    palsy

    parang

    paregoric

    pennons

    pertinaciously

    pestiferously barbarous

    phrensies

    poltroon

    portentousness

    precipitancy

    prehensile

    prurient

    pslamody

    pugnacious

    puissant

    punctilious

    quirt

    quohogs

    quoins

    rapacious

    sagacity

    samphire

    scaramouch

    scimitar

    scupper-holes

    scuttle-butt

    seamen

    sepulchral

    serried

    skrimshander

    slily

    slobgollion

    snow-howdahed

    somnabulist

    spavined

    spermaceti

    spiracle

    subterraneousness

    subtilize

    t'gallant

    taffrail

    tarpaulin

    tempestuous

    tendinous

    terrapin

    terraqueous

    thole-pins

    triune

    tyro

    unvitiated

    uxorious

    vicissitude

    yaw

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Kick-ass lettering by Tom Carnase (h/t Ben Tuttle)

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"I just finished “Moby-Dick,” which scared me off for a long time due to the hype of its difficulty. I found it to be a beautiful boy’s adventure story and not that difficult to read. Warning: You will learn more about whales than you have ever wished to know." (via Bruce Springsteen: By the Book - NYTimes.com) We would like to officially invite Bruce Springsteen to Moby-Dick Marathon NYC.

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This doesn't quite capture the cannibalism but otherwise, we are very excited.

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"Lisa, the point of MOBY-DICK is be yourself."

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Mmmmmmm I would suggest Peleg and Bildad are actually the proprietors of the Pequod but whatevs, still cool!

Literary T-Shirts!

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whoa

Cool Tattoos by Pietro Sedda

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Only THIRTEEN hours to go to fund the Moby-Dick Marathon NYC! Please pledge, tell your friends, increase your pledge, and help us hit $10k by 11PM tonight. We have truly amazing rewards left, including a chowder zine from Littleneck and STOCK TIPS, original art from spudd64 (Matt Kish), songs from amyvirginiabuchanan, and so much more.

Check out the project and pledge here.

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