Barry Sanders is the Founding Co-chair at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research-E4. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is the author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles, including Sudden Glory, Alienable Rights (winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award; with Francis Adams), ABC (with Ivan Illich), The Private Death of Public Discourse, and A Is for Ox.

"[Sanders'] reading of Moby Dick as an enraged manifesto against American greed and destruction of the natural world will leave readers utterly convinced and shaken."—Deanne Urmy, editor-at-large, Mariner Books"Sanders’...reading of Moby Dick is itself a manifesto and guide to reading that work as a synesthesia-inducing journey into the inner anatomy of American destructiveness."—Peter Dimock, author of Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson"This book, like the great sprawling book that inspired it, is angry, funny, passionate, entertaining, sorrowful, and yet a pure pleasure to read; it is, above all, a tonic for the ugly time in which we live."—John Darnielle "The Manifesto of Herman Melville is the perfect guidebook to the brilliant, timely, and sometimes maddening Moby Dick, which should be required reading for every literate American."—Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood

Barry Sanders is the Founding Co-chair at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research-E4. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is the author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles, including Sudden Glory, Alienable Rights (winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award; with Francis Adams), ABC (with Ivan Illich), The Private Death of Public Discourse, and A Is for Ox.

"[Sanders'] reading of Moby Dick as an enraged manifesto against American greed and destruction of the natural world will leave readers utterly convinced and shaken."—Deanne Urmy, editor-at-large, Mariner Books"Sanders’...reading of Moby Dick is itself a manifesto and guide to reading that work as a synesthesia-inducing journey into the inner anatomy of American destructiveness."—Peter Dimock, author of Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson"This book, like the great sprawling book that inspired it, is angry, funny, passionate, entertaining, sorrowful, and yet a pure pleasure to read; it is, above all, a tonic for the ugly time in which we live."—John Darnielle "The Manifesto of Herman Melville is the perfect guidebook to the brilliant, timely, and sometimes maddening Moby Dick, which should be required reading for every literate American."—Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood

Barry Sanders is the Founding Co-chair at the Oregon Institute for Creative Research-E4. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is the author of fourteen books and over fifty essays and articles, including Sudden Glory, Alienable Rights (winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award; with Francis Adams), ABC (with Ivan Illich), The Private Death of Public Discourse, and A Is for Ox.

"[Sanders'] reading of Moby Dick as an enraged manifesto against American greed and destruction of the natural world will leave readers utterly convinced and shaken."—Deanne Urmy, editor-at-large, Mariner Books"Sanders’...reading of Moby Dick is itself a manifesto and guide to reading that work as a synesthesia-inducing journey into the inner anatomy of American destructiveness."—Peter Dimock, author of Daybook from Sheep Meadow: The Notebooks of Tallis Martinson"This book, like the great sprawling book that inspired it, is angry, funny, passionate, entertaining, sorrowful, and yet a pure pleasure to read; it is, above all, a tonic for the ugly time in which we live."—John Darnielle "The Manifesto of Herman Melville is the perfect guidebook to the brilliant, timely, and sometimes maddening Moby Dick, which should be required reading for every literate American."—Christopher Merrill, author of Self-Portrait with Dogwood