“The thousand cheerful chimneys”

August 21, 2013

Last week, I wrote about Caleb Crain’s entry in By Heart, a series at The Atlantic in which prominent writers talk about their favorite passages. Now, & Sons author David Gilbert talks about Moby Dick, which he says is “one of a few books [he’s] dreamed about.”

is a staff writer for The Millions. He lives in New York.