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Moby-Dick

Theater Review: “Call Me Ish” – imaginary beasts’ [or, the whale]

Matthew Woods and his actors do not draw on a faux-naturalist performance style, which is so (unfortunately) fashionable in mainstream theater.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Charlestown Working Theater, imaginary-beasts, Juli Crockett, Matthew Woods, Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale

Fuse Film Review: “In the Heart of the Sea”—”Moby Dick,” Beached

Don’t you just love the holiday season? It’s the time for the release of big budget flops and Oscar wannabes.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: In the Heart of the Sea, Moby-Dick, Paul Dervis, Ron Howard

Book Interview: Sailing Through the Mind of Herman Melville

In his novel “The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville” author Jay Parini combines extensive research from existing biographies with a concrete evocation of the nineteenth century writer’s world and mind. We ask the writer a few questions about Melville, and whether there would be a market for his books today. By […]

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Books Tagged: Arrowhead, Berkshires, fiction, Herman Melville, Jay Parini, Moby-Dick, The Passages of H.M.

Fuse Flash: Melville Matters — A Pit-Stop in Pittsfield

On August 1st a group of dedicated Melvilleans gathered at the author’s Arrowhead home in the morning to commemorate his 191st birthday by hiking to Monument Mountain. This trip is meant to reenact the hike Melville took on August 5, 1850, which led to his meeting Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose short story collection Mosses from an […]

By: Christopher M. Ohge Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American, Arrowhead, Berkshires, classic, fiction, Fuse Flash, Herman Melville, MA, Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, New England, novel, Pittsfield, writer

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