Wolf howling, music and romance by Scott Norsworthy
DRAGOONED: Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853). No. 4.
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Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
On finding MOBY-DICK in the Boston MORNING JOURNAL, again
Unfortunately, the nice and early review of Moby-Dick in the Boston Morning Journal is not reprinted or listed anywhere in Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge UP, 1995) edited by Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker. The omission from this important collection seems… pic.twitter.com/yRpwcaUS0J
— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) November 18, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Episode #15: Tom Jerman: Santa Claus Worldwide
"People who say that Santa Claus doesn't exist are wrong."
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Friday, November 14, 2025
Unabridged! Welling's review of MOBY-DICK in the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
Unabridged! Welling's review of MOBY-DICK in the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER: Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and 19th century American literature.
Complete text of James Clarke Welling's review, as first published in the Washington, DC National Intelligencer on December 16, 1851
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