This is some good writing advice from Herman Melville. Â I ran across this quote in James Green's History News Network article on Adam Hochschild and the art of writing historical narrative. Â In a recent conference on "The Power of Narrative" at Boston University, Hochschild talked about how to "sound original" when "there are 15,000 books on your subject." Â Here is a taste:Why, he asked, should an academic historian only choose a topic so specialized or so esoteric that no … [Read more...] about “To Produce A Mighty Book, You Must Choose a Mighty Theme”