Ishmael, Ahab, Moby
This American Icon continues to resonate in our culture more than 150 years after it was written. Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick survived his battle with Captain Ahab only to surface in the works of...
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Music That Speaks to You
Here's a Black Friday deal that the big-box retailers can't beat. Buy the new album from the up-and-coming indie band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons and you'll get a personalized song thrown in, for no...
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Drawing on Captain Ahab
Illustration is hardly a new art form -- after all, it's been around for just about as long as stories have, although it's generally been confined to children's literature (where it's thrived). But...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Tales from the Great Epics
The great epics of literature—from those by Homer to "Beowulf" to the "Song of Roland" and Dante’s "Divine Comedy"—are not short stories. For one thing, they are all rather long. But they were intended...
View ArticleAmerican Icons: Moby-Dick
In this Peabody Award-winning show, Kurt Andersen sets sail in search of the great white whale.Herman Melville's white whale survived his battle with Captain Ahab only to surface in the works of...
View ArticleInside the Mind that Translated Moby Dick Into Emoji
Fred Benenson just can't help it. He thinks in images. So when he discovered that he could text message using the Japanese pictographs, emojis, it was a breakthrough moment. "I realized that it was...
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Remembering Five American Icons
In honor of Independence Day, WNYC presents this marathon of Studio 360's American Icons, a series of documentaries about defining works of American art. 10am: MonticelloMonticello is home renovation...
View ArticleMoby on Living Large and Falling Hard
Moby had already put out four studio albums when Play was released in 1999. He was solidly into his 30s, playing gigs in record stores and thinking about a career-change. But Play, against all...
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