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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.

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+.

#moby-dick #MDMNYC #frankstella #whitney museum

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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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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!

#MDMNYC #whitney museum

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

"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.

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

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!

#Moby-Dick #Herman Melville #MDMNYC

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

"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.

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

#In the Heart of the Sea

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

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Literary T-Shirts!

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

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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.

#Moby-Dick #MDMNYC #Kickstarter #Matt Kish #stocktips

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Ron Swanson’s take on Moby Dick.

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