Reording Moby Dick

Dwight Garner of The New York Times and Becca Rothfeld of The Washington Post discussed their 2024 book reviews with Kara Swisher on an episode of Kara's podcast, On with Kara Swisher.

Dwight mentioned wanting to see Moby Dick in a format that allows reordering sentences alphabetically. Reading the sentences is a new order lets the reader focus on the author’s sentence-writing craft rather than story telling.

So I made it. Read it here, and the R code is here.

Screenshot of a webpage that is every sentence of Moby Dick in a sortable table.