February 2012
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“He just sat in his camper and wrote all that shit.”
– John Steinbeck IV on his father’s book Travels with Charley
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extra plums: Nothing Good Gets Away: Letter from... →
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In November of 1958, John Steinbeck — the renowned author of, most notably, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and Of Mice and Men — received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who was attending boarding school. In it, the teenager spoke of Susan, a young girl with whom he believed he had fallen in love.
Steinbeck replied the same day. His beautiful letter of advice can be...
“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected...”
– John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley (via makingunraveling)
“He saw Marxism’s materiality as an important foil to both Bergsonian...”
– Mary McLeod
or, the time I took a year off from school and forgot everything.
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