Johns Hopkins University Press Podcast on Melville's Marginalia Online
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Click here to listen to the September 29, 2015 John Hopkins University Press podcast of an informative, inspirational, and stimulating interview with Steven Olsen-Smith related to Melville's Marginalia Online and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.
Leviathan 17.2, which appeared in June 2015, includes a special section on erased marginalia, with articles by Melville's Marginalia Online staff members Dawn Coleman, Peter Norberg, Dennis C. Marnon, Steven Olsen-Smith, and Joshua Preminger on recovered annotations in Melville's copies of Dante's Commedia and John Milton's Poetical Works, and Elizabeth Melville's set of The Works of William E. Channing. Shortly after publication, the Johns Hopkins University Press interviewed Olsen-Smith about Herman Melville's reading practices, the online project's relationship to Leviathan, and the significance of marginalia and source study in Melville scholarship. A podcast of the interview is available at the JHUP web site through the above link.