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...Steinbeck said, “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” He was married three times so knew of which he spoke....
...Their show evokes the America of countless ballads and stories, of railroad tracks snaking across the country, of Guthrie, Steinbeck and Kerouac....
...She has become known as a master storyteller, tailoring ballet’s vocabulary to a range of literary sources, from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men to Australian novelist Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career...
...Manitas de Plata (literally: “little silver hands”) was a flamenco rock star, a regular face on the old TV variety format and feted by everyone from John Steinbeck to Picasso....
...The all-American cast also add a vivid regional flavour to Beckett’s text, transporting the Irish playwright into the peripatetic land of John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac and Cormac McCarthy. ★★★☆☆ To December...
...Amy Goldstein, ‘Janesville: An American Story’ (2017) Favourite: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck....
...But the life of most smallholders is less Thomas Hardy and more John Steinbeck. Without irrigation, fertiliser, modern seeds or tractors, productivity across the continent is dismally low....
...“Positano bites deep,” wrote Steinbeck in his dispatch....
...Graham and Andrea Riseborough in a riot of houndstooth and leopardskin respectively, these militant philistines recoil at the cerebral prodigy they’ve spawned, who is happiest when immersed in a volume of Steinbeck...
...A whole row of Steinbeck: he must have raged for the poor and exploited. Photographs, of which there are few, became sacral objects....
...While book clubs are nothing new — the subscriber-based Book of the Month Club, founded in the US in 1926, propelled titles such as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird...
...Each room, leading off a long monastic corridor, has a balcony overlooking either the mountain or the forest; Steinbeck described how the infirm would be wheeled onto them to take in the view....
...It is a meandering story, typically Steinbeck and not seemingly really going anywhere — just examining the human condition....
...Why The former summer home of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck. He referred to the home as “my little fishing place” in his book Travels with Charley....
...The latter’s cotton Flaminia skirt (£565; matchesfashion.com) is in a pink-and-red tropical toile de Jouy pattern and, for added intellectual satisfaction, has John Steinbeck’s words “Positano bites deep...
...As a child Vlautin kept pictures of John Steinbeck and The Jam pinned to his bedroom wall, two influences which sum up the blend of romanticism, social conscience, literature and music in his work....
...Fredrik Stjernberg Stockholm, Sweden Letter in response to this letter: Persistence pays offs with Steinbeck’s classic novel / From Abigail MacCartney, Oakham, Rutland, UK...
...Low-key cool in Cambria You’ll find this underrated little town where Route 46, which traverses some seriously majestic Steinbeck country, meets Highway 1....
...There are six private cabins for guests at Pata Lodge (pata.cl); accommodation and half-board for two people costs $600 per night Disappointment More than 70 years ago, John Steinbeck declared Positano...
...They range from a Georgian house in Berkshire where Jane Austen was a frequent guest to John Steinbeck’s cottage on Long Island....
...Formerly a bishop’s palace, then a private residence whose owner hosted the likes of John Steinbeck and Alberto Moravia, the 17th-century, 7,400sq ft Palazzo Santa Croce has a décor that leans older-world...
...“Steinbeck, and his books like Cannery Row, had a big effect on the way I write,” he says. “He wrote great dialogue....
...Baja California dreamin’ La Paz, at the southern end of the Baja California peninsula, is a storied place (see John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, in which it is an intriguing protagonist)....
...An array of 20th-century authors, from Hemingway and Steinbeck to Tove Jansson and Penelope Fitzgerald, created modern classics with the short form, but in recent decades publishers have taken the view that...
...In contrast, a staging by Rafael Sanchez of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath feels much closer to a theatrical performance, with the story rolling out backstage and the vast landscapes and striking topicality...
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