Topic: John Steinbeck

The redoubtable Thers at Whiskey Fire caught this one, but, boy howdy, does it ever deserve wider circulation. In fact, it ought to be fastened to...

Literary pilgrimages on the Central Coast

0 . John Steinbeck alone would be enough to qualify Monterey as a literary powerhouse. Pilgrims of the written word could easily spend a week...

Ghost haunts in historic Monterey

0 . As California's first capital, and one of its oldest settlements, Monterey's history roils with the subjugated natives, swashbuckling...

Monterey County farm tours are fun!

0 . Most tourists come to the Monterey area for its coastal diversions, but those who visit frequently - or have read John Steinbeck's novels and...

Cute Animal Friday: Sally Lightfoot Crab

Given their spiderlike, pincher legs, crabs don't always come off as cute. But these Sally Lightfoot crabs of the Galapagos Islands are pretty...

Court turns away appeal over Steinbeck copyrights

0 . The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a son of author John Steinbeck over the publishing rights to "The Grapes of Wrath" and other early ...

The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck wrote the four short stories that comprise The Red Pony between 1933 and 1936. Another main character that appears in each of the four stories is Billy Buck, a middle-aged farm hand with long experience in the tougher aspects of ...

The Grapes of Wrath

The actors deliver John Steinbeck's words while staring into the hazy middle distance; they seem to be offering a kind of incantatory spell, too aware of the weight of the text. Henry Fonda, playing hard-bitten Okie Tom Joad, will be ?everywhere ...

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck 's Of Mice and Men is the story of two migrant ranch workers during The Great Depression , one of whom is mentally disabled. Much like Steinbeck's follow-up novel, The Grapes of Wrath , Of Mice and Men explores the inhumanity ...
By Jeremy Hart. . John Steinbeck immortalized it as the Mother Road of America, linking Chicago to Los Angeles, snaking across miles of land along...