Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · first published 1851

Mentioned 18 time(s) by 16 guest(s): 4 recommend. · Suggest a correction · Suggest tags

Gary Gallagher on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-07-28): mention
“…and some books that I think I should listen to and haven’t ever gotten around to reading. I did Moby-Dick that way.…”
Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499
Trenton Bricken on Dwarkesh Podcast (2025-05-22): mention
“…I think in an early Anthropic paper with needle in the haystack, like can the model retrieve—I think it was Moby Dick…”
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Elizabeth Cox on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2024-11-21): recommend
“…the one that sticks out most of all is Moby Dick…”
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John Gray on Conversations with Tyler (2023-11-29): recommend
“…Of course, Moby Dick is the big one, full of biblical stuff…”
John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism (Ep. 198)
Andy Johns on Lenny's Podcast (2023-09-10): mention
“…That is what that book is about. It's not about a fisherman going after a whale.…”
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Neri Oxman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-01): mention
“…we read Moby Dick, the whiteness of the whale, the albino, the different the other…”
Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #394
Marc Andreessen on Dwarkesh Podcast (2023-02-01): mention
“…literally out of Moby Dick, to go hunt a whale and bring its carcass back to land…”
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Margaret Atwood on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-02-24): mention
“…it was they who gave me a button that said, “Moby Dick is not a social disease.”…”
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Michael Schur on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-01-22): mention
“…I have a first edition copy of Moby-Dick that is in incredibly good shape…”
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Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2020-10-19): mention
“…Honestly man, I read Moby Dick to my nine-year old son and we just got lost in it.…”
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Azra Raza on EconTalk (2020-03-23): recommend
“…one of my most favorite fiction books of all time is of course Moby Dick, by Melville…”
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Joe Posnanski on EconTalk (2019-12-23): mention
“…someday they're going to call my book Moby Dick…”
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Hollis Robbins on Conversations with Tyler (2019-08-28): mention
“…because of the writing of Moby-Dick, even though nobody knew it at the time…”
Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature (Ep. 74)
Jhumpa Lahiri on Conversations with Tyler (2017-01-11): mention
“…Pavese's translation of Moby-Dick surpasses the work of Melville.…”
Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Ep. 17 - Live at Mason)
Chuck Klosterman on EconTalk (2016-08-15): mention
“…I use Moby Dick as this example…”
Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're Wrong
Chuck Klosterman on EconTalk (2016-08-15): mention
“…Melville writes Moby Dick; and he thinks it's going to be sort of his defining work…”
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D. G. Myers on EconTalk (2014-07-14): mention
“…I read Moby Dick when I was in the 5th grade because I thought I was getting away with something.…”
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D. G. Myers on EconTalk (2014-07-14): recommend
“…I like the formulous grandiosity of that book.…”
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