John Steinbeck | John Steinbeck
May.29.2008
Lighthouse Avenue in New Monterey, California is a heavily traveled, stop-light infested boulevard of bars, twelve-dollar hair cuts, Mexican, Italian and Asian restaurants, a Goodwill store and surf shop, and, most notably, a string of used and rare book shops.
The book shops have been there...
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Mar.07.2008
As writers continue to write, a national literary crises looms and no one seems to be paying it much attention. Libraries are in big trouble. As city and county budgets across the country tighten, libraries and other cultural departments, including museums and recreation, are among the first to...
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Feb.20.2008
On May 12, 1942, John Steinbeck applied for a New York State license to carry a concealed weapon. The permit, in the county of Rockland and the city of Palisades, was for two Colt Automatic revolvers. Character witnesses on the application included the actor Burgess Meredith, the artist Henry...
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Feb.12.2008
Paul Newman will make his stage directing debut in October with a production of John Steinbeck's ``Of Mice and Men,'' at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Connecticut.
Recent news items about this stirred a few memories for me.
``Of Mice and Men'' is set in California's Monterey...
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Feb.05.2008
It was a party at the Pacific Marine Biological Laboratory on Monterey's Cannery Row last year, and Gus Arriola and his wife Frances were in a euphoric mood on a cool summer evening. Gus and Frances were standing outside of ``The Lab'' on a chipped concrete platform that breaks off to the sea and...
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