NEW AUDIO, ‘Tis the season for Moby Dick

There is no better season than Fall for delving into Moby Dick. I can’t even remember how I came about reading the book, but I thank God that it wasn’t from school. I hope you’ll read the work for yourself, but there is a great new audio project that may help to encourage a new audience to take the voyage.

The actress Tilda Swinton and 134 other readers are lending their voices to the “Moby-Dick Big Read,” an online audio version of Herman Melville’s epic novel.

The chapters will be available as free downloads, a new one appearing on the Web site each day until mid-January alongside a related image by a contemporary artist.

The author Philip Hoare and the artist Angela Cockayne came up with the idea, having previously teamed up in 2011 to present a whale symposium and exhibition at Peninsula Arts, a public arts program at Britain’s Plymouth University.

Bookmark this page, and we’ll be providing a new chapter along with commentary. Enjoy and happy hunting!