Fun for the household--a long story about the writer and MELVILLE BIOGAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE. Not Samson. Not now and not ever.

 

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Monday, April 05, 2021

Hershel Parker: Archivist Agonistes

Here the writer has a gorgeous photo of Marianne Jankowski's great cover of MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY AN INSIDE NARRATIVE.

I must have read Hershel Parker's great biography of Herman Melville sometime in 2005. It's hard to be more precise than that, but the details about Melville's unpublished (and now lost) eighth novel I used in my own short story "The Isle of the Cross" certainly came from there.