Moby Dick Reading Marathon

When: April 2022

Where: Provincetown Public Library

About: Melville returns to Provincetown with the seventh annual Provincetown Public Library Moby-Dick Marathon Reading in April 2022. Joining New Bedford, MA, Mystic, CT, and New York City, this Moby-Dick Marathon celebrates Provincetown’s significant whaling heritage, as well as its history as the nation’s oldest continuous art colony.  Published in 1851, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick chronicles the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on a massive white whale responsible for destroying his ship and severing his leg at the knee during a previous voyage.  The three-day marathon reading of this nineteenth century masterwork will be held at the Provincetown Library on the starboard side of the Rose Dorothea Model.

See videos from 2020’s Virtual Moby Dick Marathon here.