Still he emails rubbish about Left's novel opening words (13)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Still he emails rubbish about Left’s novel opening words L (=left) in [CALM (=still, quiet)+ *(HE EMAILS)]; “rubbish” is anagram indicator; “Call me Ishmael” are the opening words of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick