Matt Kish’s Book Notes music playlist for his book Moby-Dick in Pictures

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Matt Kish’s Moby-Dick in Pictures brilliantly shares an illustration for each page of Melville’s classic n0vel, and this new edition celebrates Moby-Dick’s 175th anniversary next month. The Atlantic wrote of the book: “Woven of equal parts visual mastery and creative bravery, Moby-Dick in Pictures is a treasure in and of itself, one that not only pays homage to Melville, but also reimagines what it means to embark on a modern-day epic voyage of creative restlessness.” In his own words, here is Matt Kish’s Book Notes music playlist for his book Moby-Dick in Pictures: Over the course of 543 days, from August 2009 to January 2011, I created 552 illustrations for Herman Melville’s…