There are some books which I know, as soon as I heard of them, I MUST Have. And a few where I think, "I MUST interview the author of that book." Such is the case here. I have long been a fan of rubber ...

Author Donovan Hohn heard a story about thousands of yellow rubber ducks that were lost at sea. His desire to follow the story lead him on a year-and-a-half-long adventure through the Arctic and into ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Donovan Hohn, author of the best-selling book “Moby-Duck,” recipient of the Whiting Writer’s Award ...

In 1992, a cargo ship container tumbled into the North Pacific, dumping 28,800 toys into the ocean. What happened to those toys led writer Donovan... 'Moby-Duck': When 28,800 Bath Toys Are Lost At Sea ...

The title is not just a bad pun. The author, a high-school lit teacher, first encountered Moby-Duck in a paper turned in by one of his students. It seems 28,800 plastic bath toys — including thousands ...

In “Moby-Duck,” Donovan Hohn, a former English teacher and the current features editor at GQ, goes in search of twenty-eight thousand bath toys that washed out of a cargo ship into the Pacific in 1992 ...

Kai Ryssdal: Billions of dollars worth of cargo goes back and forth across the oceans every day. It’s just the cheapest way to get something from Point A to Point B. But there are real costs to the ...

Donovan Hohn's narrative about his monomaniacal quest for the elusive yellow duck(s) bobbing somewhere upon the intractable oceans is more than a little Melvillian. The plastic (not rubber) duckies ...

Somebody should be ashamed of themselves. Whoever it was, they forgot a basic tenet of kindergarten: If you make a mess, you clean it up. But there it is, trash all over the place. Paper bags, plastic ...