Deep Thinking About Great Books
Deep Thinking About Great Books
Spencer Baum
Episode 2: Orson Welles and Moby Dick
24 minutes Posted Mar 3, 2019 at 3:58 pm.
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In Episode 2 of the DTAGB podcast we continue our discussion of Moby Dick and take note of the fact that when Moby Dick became a sensation in the first half of the 20th century, it was because artists, rather than critics, loved it. What is it about this novel that's so appealing to creative people?