A Moby-Dick Week 2021 Event

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Moby-Dick: The Queerest Book We Never Knew
A Talk with Philip Hoare

Moby-Dick is a stalwart of American literature. But it is also sensual and sexy, hilariously comic, deeply subversive, and often, in all its 136 chapters, fails to take itself seriously. In that very modern respect, as in so many others, this revolutionary, incredibly diverse and wondrous book still deserves our rapt and amazed attention. It may have been written in 1851, but we have never needed Moby-Dick's liberal spirit more than we do today. In this talk, Philip Hoare will explore its strange and wonderful ways, and ask, is this the queerest book we never knew?

Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of non-fiction, including biographies of Noël Coward and Stephen Tennant, and Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand. His book The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize, and was followed by The Sea Inside and RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR. His latest book, Albert & the Whale, is published this May by Pegasus Books. He is professor of creative writing at the University of Southampton, and cocurator of the online projects, the Moby-Dick Big Read and the Ancient Mariner Big Read. He is a frequent visitor to Provincetown, and will often be found in the sea.

Email araff@clamsnet.org for the Zoom link.

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