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Whores, Steinbeck and Lucy

Sweet Bird wrote 3 days ago: You kids are just so sweet with your comments. Okay, Rage Sunday update. But first, I find this terr … more →

Tags: Awesome, adventure, Alcohol, beards, boys, Brothel, Dating, dog, Drunk

The Pearl

joelkimmel wrote 3 days ago: This piece is an illustration for the cover of The Pearl, a novel by John Steinbeck. The story revol … more →

Tags: New Work, john steinbeck, The Pearl, Scorpion, Pearl, Oyster, Kimmel, Illustration, Ocean

EAST OF EDEN

mercedeshelnwein wrote 6 days ago: "East of Eden" This is my new exhibition. I’m going to say a few quick profound thin … more →

Tags: Ali Helnwein, Art, Drawing, East of Eden, film, gallery, Jason Lee, Los Angeles, Mercedes Helnwein

Reprints of Desert Sea Research

sagarin wrote 6 days ago: Here is a paper I wrote documenting changes to the Gulf of California since the 1940 Ricketts and St … more →

Tags: Research, Ricketts

The Ten Greatest Novels of the 20th Century1 comment

ianthecool wrote 1 week ago: 10. 1984 George Orwell Orwell’s dystopian novel of a world controlled by Big Brother has becom … more →

Tags: The Top Tens, 1984, Catcher in the Rye, faulkner, Fitzgerald, Grapes of Wrath, Gravity's Rainbow, Great Gatsby, Harper Lee

The Long Way Home4 comments

Vicky wrote 2 weeks ago: John Steinbeck wasn’t crazy about going to Texas when he made his trip across America with Charley, … more →

Tags: travels with charley, Home, Texas, Austin, Texas

10 Books that made my world

charliejackjosephkruger wrote 3 weeks ago: so i saw this online recently, and i decided that i should do a similar thing. 10 books that changed … more →

Tags: Gatsby, Hemingway, Our Town, Of Mice and Men, Old Man and the Sea, The Man Who Would Be King, Kipling, Dune, Frank Herbert

Reading and To-Be Reading List.8 comments

cenewgent wrote 3 weeks ago: Scored some new books with a Half Price gift card my friends April and Kristy got us for the wedding … more →

Tags: Books, Thoughts, Blake Butler, scorch atlas, Hemingway, Nicole Krauss, Cormac Mccarthy, half price books

Serious Fun with Lorrie Moore2 comments

area wrote 3 weeks ago: Lorrie Moore speaks to a group of writers downtown I’ve only been to three of the six Lighthou … more →

Tags: Cool Events, Coffee, Corgi, Craft, Fiction, hair, Lorrie Moore, Short Story, writing

Isn't it funny? A commentary on God's sense of humour.2 comments

icarushasfallen wrote 1 month ago: “That’s him. That shiny bastard. That’s him.” Casy stared blindly at the light. He breat … more →

Tags: God, jim casy, Preacher, Pastor, writing, Ideas!, Laughing, humour

Books that Changed My Life2 comments

coleyoakum wrote 1 month ago: I was thinking that I have not mad any good lists lately.  So, I thought I would ponder a while and … more →

Tags: Reading, Donald Miller, Books, East of Eden, wringer, spinelli, Blue Like Jazz, Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

"You're our own folks," Huston said sadly. *13 comments

Cheri wrote 1 month ago: by cheri block sabraw   We all get busy. And sometimes, we are so intent on our mission, we for … more →

Tags: Life, People, Dignity, Small Business

The Grapes of Wrath

Serena Trowbridge wrote 1 month ago: Frank Galati’s adaptation of Steinbeck’s mammoth novel The Grapes of Wrath is currently … more →

Tags: theatre, Birmingham Rep, The Grapes Of Wrath

Wind Farming2 comments

Vicky wrote 1 month ago: Having read “Travels with Charley,” I can see that little has changed from what John Steinbeck saw a … more →

Tags: travels with charley, wind farm, Tennessee Valley Authority, wind turbines, stimulas program, Federal Grants

GRAPES OF WRATH

K wrote 1 month ago: Seriously, guys. Seriously. September 2008 was a catastrophe of a kind we had almost forgotten, so d … more →

Tags: US Politics, All aboard the failboat, Emergency, Nihilism, The Great Depression

steinbeck on disturbance

sethbra wrote 1 month ago: Samuel leaned his elbows on the table and his hands covered his eyes and his forehead. “I want … more →

Tags: red threads, Questions, Answers, ineffables

Bites: Is New York Bad for Writers?, Should Bookstores Rethink Shelving?, East of Eden as Performance, the Death of the Man of Letters, How to Get Rid of Hipsters, and more

Willa A. Cmiel wrote 1 month ago: HTMLGiant asks if New York for writers is The Place to Be, or whether it’s just too damn expen … more →

Tags: bITes, Shakespeare, Nobel Prize, New York, HTMLGIANT, Brooklyn, Bruce Springsteen, obama, Publishing

Encouragement from the Masters1 comment

Jonathan Danz wrote 1 month ago: Calvin is hip, he knows what cooks. Every so often I can use a kick in the pants–a little shot … more →

Tags: writing, Hemingway, Writing Tips, Inspiration, Stephen King, ueland, Emerson

Brideshead [re]visited6 comments

Stephen Foster wrote 1 month ago: I read two books by Evelyn Waugh on holiday, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited. Both were t … more →

Tags: From Working-Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace (A Memoir, Brideshead Revistited, Evelyn Waugh, tortilla flat


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