The Grapes of Wrath, handwritten
The Guardian reports on the publication of John Steinbeck’s handwritten manuscript of The Grapes of Wrath.
Palomino Blackwing non-users
“No, Steinbeck, White, and Wolfe never sang the praises of the Palomino Blackwing, because they lived and died before that pencil came into production.”
Rice and beans à la Hannity
Sean Hannity echoes The Grapes of Wrath.
Hooverville 2.0
The Grapes of Wrath and us.
The Grapes of Wrath, 2011
BBC economics editor Paul Mason rented a car and retraced the Joad family’s journey.
Steinbeck pencils
Steinbeck’s favorite pencils, the Blaisdell Calculator, the Eberhard Faber Blackwing, and the Eberhard Faber Mongol
Fambly
A Steinbeck word
"Radios, it is"
Popular Mechanics ad, Grapes of Wrath excerpt
Steinbeck on migrant camps
For my students reading The Grapes of Wrath -- an excerpt from John Steinbeck's 1936 account of migrant camps in California: Here is a hous...
John Steinbeck on the Blackwing pencil
"I have found a new kind of pencil--the best I have ever had. Of course it costs three times as much but it is black and soft and doesn't br...
Steinbeck's Salinas
From an article by Carolyn Marshall in today's New York Times : The reputation of this farming community, known as the Salad Bowl of the Wor...
Dorris Bowdon
From John Ford's film The Grapes of Wrath (1940): Rose of Sharon: It seems like we wasn't never doin' nothin' but movin'. I'm tired. Connie...