Summary: A special hour on our relationship with the mighty whale and how Americans young and old respond to Melville’s great American novel. A conversation with George Cotkin, author of "Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby Dick," an entertaining guide to Ishmael’s odyssey; Meg Guroff, a Hopkins grad who created a web site with an annotated Moby Dick to help readers; and Hollis Robbins, poet and professor of humanities at Hopkins and the Peabody Institute who has taught the novel in a Peabody seminar. Original air date: August 21
