Midday on Literature: Moby Dick: Tuesday August 21, 1-2 p.m.




WYPR: Midday with Dan Rodricks Podcast show

Summary: Our relationship with the great whale, how Americans young and old respond to Melville's great American novel, with George Cotkin, author of "Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby Dick," an entertaining guide to Ishmael's journey; Meg Guroff, a Hopkins grad who created a web site with an annotated Moby Dick to help readers; and Hollis Robbins, professor of humanities at Hopkins and the Peabody Institute who has taught the novel in a Peabody seminar.