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Posts tagged Herman Melville

February 16, 2011

Fictional Feasts: Mouth-Watering Moments in Literary Gastronomy

Clam chowder in Moby Dick, a turducken except made with camel and antelope in I Served the King of England, Turkish delight in Narnia. And more!

Filed under Flavorwire food in fiction Herman Melville Virginia Woolf Roald Dahl Bohumil Hrabal Narnia Ulysses James Joyce Charles Dickens Jonathan Franzen

February 3, 2011

Desk detail. Melville, Muscle Men, my mom, and Anne Carson.

See other interiors here, here, here, and here.

Filed under apartment interiors office desk Anne Carson Herman Melville whales