Chapters 12 & 13: "Biographical" and "Wheelbarrow"

Talia talks to Jeet Heer, legendary Twitter personality and correspondent for the Nation, about two chapters that delve into Queequeg's biography. We talk about the Melville revival in the '20s, homoeroticism in nineteenth-century American literature, and what it's like to be two non-Christians in America reading about a non-Christian in America. Also, Jeet advances his theory that Queequeg and Ishmael are like Kirk and Spock: a man of action and a cerebral thinker. Let's get spicy!