Salinas , the heart of the “salad bowl of the world” is the birthplace of Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968). His home , a two story Victorian on Central and Stone streets , has been restored and opened as a restaurant. Downstairs is the Best Cellar Gift Shop offering local crafts and a selection of the author’s works.
Target #277: East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan) – I haven’t read John Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden,” but I’m familiar with enough of the author’s work to know that he wasn’t a “glass half-full” kind of man. Steinbeck’s characters appear to persist despite their misery, …
Baseball Sunday with Daniel Ford: From the Archives:Summer Poetry – John Steinbeck’s East of Eden was recommended to me last summer by Next Magazine’s dining editor Peter Sherwood (whose blog Evenings with Peter is a MUST read). I devoured the novel in short order and it instantly became one of my …
“If I Were John Steinbeck I Would Say (Casually) That You Have … – Welcome back to Crap Email From A Dude, in which dudes incriminate themselves in ways at once profoundly alarming and totally familiar. Today, the “Wow Dude, You Found Me Out, Fucking You Twice Means I’m Trying To Marry You” thing.
Auction Results ~ John Steinbeck « Bygone Books Blog – Condition: tape residue to free endpapers; slight rubbing at head of jacket spine. First edition, first issue inscribed by Steinbeck, “For Katherine Lowry/ John Steinbeck” on endpaper. With the bullet on p. 88. Goldstone & Payne A7a. …
East of Eden by John Steinbeck – Steinbeck traces the major events of the lives of multiple families that populated the Salinas Valley in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The novel culminates in a fascinating reprisal of the story of Cain and Abel, carrying the …
Coast Road. A Steinbeck Study « The Coast Road – No Coast Road for Steinbeck’s characters to travel upon. Zero mentions in over 42 years of writing and 25 literary efforts. Although John Steinbeck wrote from his teens in the late nineteen-teens until his death in 1962, the man fails …
Book Covers Anonymous: Jen Wang: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck – Jen Wang: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck. A new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. This is a great solution to showing the history of Steinbeck by incorporating covers of his original first editions published in the 30s and 40s. …
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