#Moby Dick; Or, The Whale in Tweets

Mike Bezemek is a writer, photographer, editor, and teacher. He's contributed work to a variety of publications, including Canoe & Kayak Magazine , Bull , Hobart , The Morning News , FalconGuides , and elsewhere. He's not the Mike Bezemek that lives in Texas. He's the other one.

Bezemek makes Moby-Dick engaging and fun-halfway between the original and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, with Ishmael LOLing and OMGing all the way. . . . Maybe if I'd been able to experience the classics via hashtags and emoji, I might have read more in high school!" -Ian Doescher, author of the William Shakespeare's Star Wars series

"Exploits one of the best-kept secrets in American literature: the wild, snarky playfulness of Moby-Dick ." -Tim Cassedy, creator of Dick: A Card Game Based on the Novel by Herman Melville

"Hilarious! Quirky! Imagine Holden Caulfield writing his own CliffsNotes. Modern versions of the original stories told with #attitude." -Mark Greenside, author of (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living and I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do)

"'Like catching the wind or damming a mountain stream with a straw,' Mike Bezemek's Twit Lit Classics accomplishes the unaccomplishable-compressing MAJOR works of literature into #tl;dr volumes. The result is swaggering and serious, with a lyrical ellipticism that calls to mind George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo . #praisedue indeed!!!" -JoAnna Novak, author of I Must Have You

"Read these tweets! @mikebezemek will make you laugh so hard you won't realize how much you're learning." -Alison Espach, author of The Adults and Assistant Professor of English at Providence College