PequodPod

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

Here is a free preview of our second Melville at the Movies episode. In this episode, Tristan, Meg, and Jonny discuss Ron Howard's 2015 movie, "In the Heart of the Sea," based on the true narrative of the sinking of the whaleship Essex.

The conversation moves along more dramatically than a CGI whale as we talk truth claims, narrative emphases, and questionable accents, as well as the star-studded cast of actors in this film, which includes Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, and a wee-little Tom Holland.

We also debate the subject of who should play Herman Melville in the future PequodPod-produced, 3-hour gay biopic before coming to THE DEFINITIVE CONCLUSION.

You can enjoy the full bonus episode by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod at the Stubb, Starbuck, or Ahab levels.

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Also, if you live in the United States and haven't already, go vote!

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, Meg is joined by Dr. Marina Wells, Assistant Curator of History and Culture at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, to discuss nominative determinism, jawbones, ship death, toxic maritime masculinity, forecastle vs. quarter deck, Ahab’s refusal to go on spring break, the singular foyer of the NBWM, and what a “boat” “is,” and finally ask how spooky, exactly, is the Pequod.

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, we investigate the gayest chapter thus far in Moby-Dick: "A Bosom Friend." Tristan thinks it should have been named "The Marriage," and Queequeg and Ishmael do indeed get hitched in this one. Also, happy belated 175th birthday Moby-Dick!

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, we interview our special guest Dr. Jonathan A. Cook about the biblical sources of Moby-Dick. Dr. Cook is the author of Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of Moby-Dick and many other fascinating articles on Melville's oeuvre. We talk Jonah & Job, Peleg & peroration, eschatology & Ecclesiastes. Hop on in 'cause we're going to Sunday school!

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

This is a big one. Father Mapple is bringing down the house at the Whaleman's Chapel. We talk Jonah and Paul, Chronometricals and Horologicals, swinging lamps and more!

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N.B. Tristan was holding his copy of Moby-Dick a little too close to his face at times, which is why he sometimes sounds a little muffled while quoting things.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, we interview our special guest Rufai Shardow, park ranger at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. We talk about the history of New Bedford and cover a range of topics including the indigenous history of the area, Quakers, abolitionism, and whether Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville ever met!

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

This episode, we meet Father Mapple and see him mount his pulpit. But it is quite a special pulpit.

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

This week, PequodPod goes to church! We read some spooky cenotaphs, hear about Tristan's taphophobia, and consider getting hitched at the Seaman's Bethel in New Bedford.

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, we interview our special guest Adam Mellion from the blog All Visible Objects. We talk about his Melvillean sleuthing, from busts to Antarctica, and track down the true origin of the brand name Starbucks.

While we do discuss the company Starbucks on this episode, this is in no way meant as an advertisement or product placement, and in fact we strongly encourage our audience to respect the boycott called by Starbucks Workers Uniteduntil the company signs a contract with the union.

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, we interview our special guest Dr. Steve Mentz about his excellent poetry collection Sailing without Ahab. We talk blue humanities, recasting Moby-Dick without its most tyrannical character, swimming, and more!

Dr. Steve Mentz is department chair and professor of English at St John’s University. As well as Sailing Without Ahab, he is the author of several books, including At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, An Introduction to the Blue Humanities, Break Up the Anthropocene, and Ocean.

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

Here is a free preview of our inaugural Melville at the Movies episode. We discuss John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick, starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, Leo Genn as Starbuck, Orson Welles as Father Mapple, and with a knockout performance by Harry Andrews as Stubb.

This is definitely a folio-sized bonus episode, clocking in at 99 minutes. The first 21 are free for you here on our normal feed. We really put a lot of effort into this one, and it's really rather excellent.

You can enjoy the full bonus episode by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod at the Stubb, Starbuck, or Ahab levels.

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

This week, we hit the streets of New Bedford and view some queer-looking nondescripts, especially some downright bumpkin dandies!

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

*SPOILERS for Moby-Dick and Game Changers Series*

In this episode, we interview our special guest Dr. Hester Blum about her fascinating article “Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows. We talk genre, MM Romance, queer eschatologies, and more!

Dr. Hester Blum is the Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis; previously, she taught at Penn State University for twenty-two years. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and her B.A. from Princeton University in 1995. Her scholarship and teaching focus on oceanic and polar studies, nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, Herman Melville, and the environmental humanities.

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

Hope you're hungry because this is a big boy breakfast! Hot rolls, pea coffee, beefsteaks done rare! In this episode, Tristan, Meg & Jonny talk Ishmael's reaction to Peter Coffin's skylarking, complexion as an indicator of nautical know-how, and what precisely their tummies rumble for in the morning.

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

*SPOILERS for Moby-Dick and Mosses from an Old Manse*

In this episode, we interview our special guest Dr. Mark Noble about why Melville dedicated Moby-Dick to somebody named Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Dr. Mark Noble is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches American literature and critical theory. He's the author of American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens (Cambridge UP, 2015). His essays appear in American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, American Literary History, J19, and various edited collections.

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CONTENT WARNING: Tristan's spooky sleep paralysis story.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles analyze Chapter 5 of Moby-Dick, The Counterpane. In this chapter, Queequeg and Ishmael snuggle, Ishmael relates a striking childhood memory, and Queequeg shaves with his harpoon.

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into the second half of Chapter 3 of Moby-Dick: The Spouter-Inn. In this portion of the chapter, Ishmael snoops around his roommate's stuff, undresses while thinking about comely harpooneers, and finally has his fateful encounter with Queequeg himself.

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PequodPod has some new music created by Lost in the Loop and sound engineer Lauren Ayton. Here is the full track.

Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

In this episode, our hosts Tristan Bavol-Marques, Meg Fancher, and Jonny Wiles dive deep into the first half of Chapter 3 of Moby-Dick: The Spouter-Inn. In this portion of the chapter, Ishmael enters the Spouter-Inn, gets driven distracted by a boggy, soggy, squitchy picture, checks out a hunk named Bulkington, and is generally confounded by the inn's proprietor, one Peter Coffin.

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Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville.

*SPOILERS for Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno*

In this episode, we interview our special guest Naima Karczmar about her Leviathan article “Encyclopedic Raciality: Geo-Ethnographic Speculation in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.” Naima is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, where she works on racial epistemologies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

If you enjoy the show, please consider helping defray the costs of making the show by joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/PequodPod

Please also consider telling a friend about the show. Word of mouth is the best way to spread the word about PequodPod, and it helps us tremendously.