Hester Blum
@hesterblum.bsky.social
A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
(the story of how I came to have Melville's commode: avidly.org/2021/12/05/h...)
Herman Melville’s Commode
I have recently become the reverential custodian of a commode that belonged to Herman Melville. I achieved this honor through an unlikely sequence of events that began with a Facebook post about a …
avidly.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
(the story of how I came to have Melville's commode: avidly.org/2021/12/05/h...)
thank you, very excited!
August 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
thank you, very excited!
Ooooh that looks excellent
July 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Ooooh that looks excellent