High-res rachelfershleiser: Beginning Friday evening, though, more than 160 New Yorkers are giving it a shot — out loud and in succession. Amanda Bullock, the director of public programming at the AIDS advocacy group Housing Works, and Polly Bresnick, a writer and teacher, have organized a marathon-style reading of the Melville masterwork. It will unfold over three days at three independent bookstores — Word, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; Housing Works Bookstore and Café, in SoHo; and Molasses Books, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. While there are other “Moby-Dick” marathons each year around the country, with bearded, bespectacled acolytes flocking to seaside ports, sipping from thermoses of grog and readjusting their sweaters at the podium, this, organizers say, is New York City’s first. (via ‘Moby-Dick’ Marathon in New York - NYTimes.com) Thank you NYC book community. You are the absolute best. The cure for the damp, drizzly November in your soul.

rachelfershleiser:

Beginning Friday evening, though, more than 160 New Yorkers are giving it a shot — out loud and in succession. Amanda Bullock, the director of public programming at the AIDS advocacy group Housing Works, and Polly Bresnick, a writer and teacher, have organized a marathon-style reading of the Melville masterwork. It will unfold over three days at three independent bookstores — Word, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; Housing Works Bookstore and Café, in SoHo; and Molasses Books, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. While there are other “Moby-Dick” marathons each year around the country, with bearded, bespectacled acolytes flocking to seaside ports, sipping from thermoses of grog and readjusting their sweaters at the podium, this, organizers say, is New York City’s first.

(via ‘Moby-Dick’ Marathon in New York - NYTimes.com)

Thank you NYC book community. You are the absolute best.

The cure for the damp, drizzly November in your soul.

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