This week, Lit Matters sets out on its maiden voyage, discussing Herman Melville’s classic Moby Dick with Dr. Dean Franco, Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University. He is the author of three books including The Border and the Line: Race, Literature and Los Angeles and Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969.

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is available in paperback Amazon, as is the hard cover University of California Press Edition mentioned by Dr. Franco.

If you want to plunge into other nautical or ocean related books, consider Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us, Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea, Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm, or Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea.