Before the long weekend
I love long weekends, though this one is a little too busy for my taste. I have forty chapters of Moby-Dick, half of a biography of Melville, a John Winthrop sermon, and a long article on Calvinism to read for class on Wednesday, and a paragraph to draft on one of the Moby-Dick chapters for Tuesday night, plus a screener of an Iranian film to watch and review. There are also a stack of publisher’s catalogs next to my couch that I need to wade through to find books for the Sept/Oct issue of RELEVANT. Oh, and Indy 4 out this weekend. I’m not complaining, exactly; I’m just a little tired and the weather is too lovely.
Luckily, the Melville biography is quite interesting. Did you know that he spent many of his growing-up years in the general Albany area? He lived in Albany, Greenbush, and Lansingburgh. Just a like a certain other New York-dwelling writer. :)
Happy Memorial Day, Americans, and everyone have a great weekend!
Jason wrote:
One of Erik S.’s friends (did you know him?) lived in Melville’s old house in Lansingburgh; by that point it had a marked lean.
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