Monday, September 23, 2013

Hershel Parker, Biographer in an Age of Theory, Talks about the Price of Genius--What Writing MOBY-DICK cost Melville

And what it cost his family.

One of Melville's younger granddaughters told her children that the price of genius was too high for any family to pay.

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Shasta, 1:30 p.m., Thursday, September 26, 2013.

Much of what I will say derives from documentary evidence I and a few others have discovered over the last half century,

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