In New York this weekend,visitors to the museum were treated to the twisting and gorgeous sentences of Herman Melville read aloudNovelist and Believer co-founder Heidi Julavits had a burning question for other readers at this year’s Moby-Dick marathon: how many had read the entire book?Julavits was rapid/fast to confess that she hasn’t, and joked that perhaps this very fact is allotment of the appeal of the event, or which gathered more than 100 writers and artists to read all of Herman Melville’s classic – in 10-minute chunks on Friday and Saturday. “perhaps we think that by doing this we’re paying homage to Melville and so hell forgive us for not reading his entire book,” she said.
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Source: theguardian.com