Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
Here's something you don't see every day even on #MelvilleMonday, a previously unrecorded notice of MOBY-DICK. This item is not reprinted or listed in the great compendium Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge UP, 1995) edited by Brian Higgins (1943-2015) and… pic.twitter.com/nC7vIiM68U
— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) July 20, 2026
"introduces a newly identified Civil War-era flag inscribed by Herman Melville with his name and New York City address, a material artifact that expands our understanding of the author’s commitment to national identity....Melville acquired the flag no later than the period surrounding the outbreak of war, flying it at Arrowhead before relocating to New York, where he added the ink inscription and continued to use it."
"We'd like to do... Everybody want to stand up this time; everybody must stand up, because "we's all Americans," so forth and so on. We are Americans: you can do this, you can do that. This is for everybody together, that action. We'd like to do the American anthem the way it really is in the air which you breathe every day, the way it really sounds."
-- Jimi Hendrix, May 30, 1970 Live at Berkeley, 2nd show 10 p.m.
Still on Amazon under "Editorial Reviews":
— Scott Norsworthy 🇺🇸 (@Melvilliana) July 7, 2026
Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is amazing, and deliciously different from Hershel Parker’s string of non-retirement works—intricately rooted in verifiable facts, precise and reliable as ever, but juicier, braver, and better…
"Hershel Parker, an American university professor distinguished for his two-volume biography of Herman Melville, died at his home in Morro Bay on June 19, 2026, at the age of ninety."
https://esterobaynews.com/obituaries/hershel-parker-1935-2026/
R.I.P. Maestro
HAPPY 250TH AMERICA!!!! pic.twitter.com/eJvTAbOVUA
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 4, 2026
