Podcast Episodes featuring Herman Melville

Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Magazines" (U Massachusetts Press 2018)

New Books Network - August 26, 2019 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
"What I feel most moved to write, that is banned―it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the otherway I cannot." Herman Melville wrote these words as he struggled to survive as a failing novelist. Between 1853 and 1856, he did write "the other way," working exclusively for magazines. He earned mo...

Herman Melville

Legacy: the Artists Behind the Legends - September 27, 2018 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratings
Herman Melville was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer active during the American Renaissance period from roughly the mid 1840s until his death in 1891. His best known works include magnificent classics such as Moby Dick and Typee, and while Melville today is considered one of the...