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Why Melville Still Matters
Celebrating the writer’s 200th Birthday
Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum is celebrating the bicentennial of Herman Melville’s birthday by offering a variety of programs and classes about the famous writer’s work. Part of the celebration included a marathon reading of Moby-Dick. Similar events have taken place at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, the Firehouse at Fort Mason in San Francisco, and at Melville’s gravesite at the Woodlawn Conservatory in New York. These celebrations are a testament to the author’s enduring prominence in American literature. His work speaks to today’s generation and our current politics with remarkable prescience. In NRO Victor Davis Hanson recently alluded to Melville’s great novel in a critique of CNN: “But the better question is whether CNN—which has ruined its reputation and profits in an Ahab-esque effort to destroy the Trump white whale—is any longer a media organization at all, or a failing entertainment channel, or a boring Ministry of Truth.”
“He took the shark head, the carving knife, the scalpel, and the bucket of hydrogen peroxide up to his room.”
Check out this extended excerpt from the beginning of chapter 15…
Experience the thrilling underwater adventure of Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea by Howard Butcher. Pick it up today at Amazon.
4 Photos From a Father-Son Fishing Trip
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‘Fireworks In the Sea’: A July 4th Excerpt from Jonah, a Novel of Men and the Sea
Enjoy this and three more excursions into Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea, the debut novel of Howard Butcher
Howard Butcher’s underwater thriller brims with authenticity, energy, and thematic depth. Buy Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea today on Amazon. Check out the first excerpt, “The Tiger Shark’s Head,” the second, “The Lidless Eye,” and the third, “The Snake Eater.”
‘The Snake Eater’: The Third Excerpt from Jonah, a New Liberty Island Novel
Enjoy this and three more excursions into Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea, the debut novel of Howard Butcher
Howard Butcher’s underwater thriller brims with authenticity, energy, and thematic depth. Buy Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea today on Amazon. Check out the first excerpt, “The Tiger Shark’s Head.” and the second, “The Lidless Eye.”
‘The Lidless Eye’: The Second Excerpt from Jonah, a New Liberty Island Novel
Enjoy this and three more excursions into Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea, the debut novel of Howard Butcher
Howard Butcher’s underwater thriller brims with authenticity, energy, and thematic depth. Buy Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea today on Amazon. Click here for the first excerpt, “The Tiger Shark’s Head.”
‘The Tiger Shark’s Head’: Excerpt #1 from Jonah, a New Liberty Island Novel
Enjoy this and three more excursions into Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea, the debut novel of Howard Butcher
Howard Butcher’s underwater thriller brims with authenticity, energy, and thematic depth. Buy Jonah: A Novel of Men and the Sea today on Amazon.
