Exhibit X Fiction

Call Me Moishe: The True Confessions of a White Whale


Mark Shechner's novel Call Me Moishe: The True Confessions of a White Whale, is a rewriting of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick from below the water line, an exercise in "history from below" that asks (then answers) the question, "Can the submerged speak?"

Among Shechner's other current work is an anthology, co-edited with Victoria Aarons and Avinoam Patt, of Jewish writers in North America entitled The New Diaspora: The Changing Face of Jewish Writing In America, to be published in 2014 by Wayne State University Press. An excerpt from Call Me Moishe appeared in 2012 in The Texas Review.

From advance reviews of Call Me Moishe:

"Huge."—Flipper

"There won't be a dry eye in the Pacific after this."—Charlie the Tuna

"That whale is a complete nudnick."—Professor Morris (Moishe, Mo) Dickens, Department of English, University of Snowport, Snowport, New York

"Look Who's Talking."—Moby Dick