The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. One night in 2014, friends Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley sat in a literary bar ...

Call Me Ishmael revolutionized the way we talk about books when it launched in the summer of 2014. The brainchild of Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent, the website features a number where you can “call ...

Long gone are the days where readers are restricted to reading only printed books. Thanks to technology, we were introduced to e-book readers in 1998. These nitfy devices are literally swimming with ...

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Call Me Ishmael Is An Intimate, Multimedia Love Letter To Books “Leave a voicemail about a book you love and a story you’ve lived,” the project asks.

SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...

Friday afternoon, Nov. 14, a group of Alfred University students, faculty and staff began what is likely the most ambitious ...

But as we all know, Moby-Dick didn’t die. In the 20th century people began noticing the beauties of this weird whale of a book: its dazzling language, a concoction of Shakespeare, the King James Bible ...