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Bill Steigerwald
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Sorry, Charley: The fabulism of ‘Travels With Charley’
After criss-crossing America in the tracks of John Steinbeck’s ‘Travels With Charley,’ Bill Steigerwald came to a conclusion: The esteemed work is something of a fraud. (Victimless, perhaps, but still.)
A cornfield near Alice, N.D., where Steinbeck supposedly camped overnight and met an itinerant Shakespearean actor in October 1960.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sunday, December 05
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The book is flawed in many ways. See "Dogging Steinbeck," my new book on Amazon. Or sign up for a giveaway of "Dogging Steinbeck" before Feb. 2 at:http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Dogging Steinbeck: How I Went in Search of John Steinbeck's America, Found My Own America, and Exposed the Truth about 'Travels with Charley'
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Steinbeck never said it was a novel. Neither did his publisher, Viking Press. TWC was marketed, sold, reviewed and taught as a work of nonfiction from
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"Well researched book. Fun to read about a sort of a mystery solved and to see how the author unravels Steinbeck's narrative of "Travels with Charley". "
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Thanks, Jerry, for a fair assessment of my book and what I did or did not do well. The angry-man part -- which so many people, including the Steinbeck
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Dogging Steinbeck: How I Went in Search of John Steinbeck's America, Found My Own America, and Exposed the Truth about 'Travels with Charley':
"Bill….What are you so angry about?? I liked what you set out to do and I feel it has some merit. But your anger over what Steinbeck and his editors did seems like a reach to me. I think if you had approached it with a little more humor it would have "
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"Interesting and well written, but the negative tone was off-putting. The book would benefit, as Travels with Charley did, from editing out the politics."
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"This was a very interesting book. Thanks to the author and to Goodreads for having the chance to win this book and enjoy it. I have never been a Steinbeck reader, but this makes me very interested in reading his books. I enjoyed the 'journey' around "
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Sorry for your hatred of my book and my opinions. As you know from reading the book, it wasn't obvious to readers that 'Charley' was heavily fictional
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Sorry you -- and so many others -- didn't get my sarcasm, self-deprecating humor and 'angry' op-ed style of writing. Can't help it. It's what happens
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