
Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast
A chapter by chapter breakdown of the greatest, weirdest American novel, "Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale." Theme song by Noam Hassenfeld.
Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast
Chapter 21: "Going Aboard"
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Talia Lavin
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Season 1
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Episode 14
Talia talks with journalist and author Jonathan Katz about a particularly strange and wonderful chapter, in which we learn that Queequeg sits on people's butts as a chaise lounge, and compare this favorably to the ravages of global capitalism. Once again we consider the use of nautical metaphors in a time of plague. And bonus F/M/K: Ishmael, Queequeg, Ahab!