“Moby-Dick and American Literature of the Fantastic; or, Bound for the South Seas”, an essay by your correspondent, “a crackpot theory with a kernel of truth”, appears in Exacting Clam 12 (Spring 2024).
Also of note in the issue is a matched pair by Richard Kostelanetz, “Two Single-Sentence Stories”.
https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-12-spring-2024/