Steinbeck

[close] Welcome to the official National Steinbeck Center Book Club group. We will be discussing the words and themes of John Steinbeck’s novels and non-fiction. After the book is announced, the NSC team will post a few questions from the discussions we’ve had in the office and add your questions throughout the month. You can still find all our other content on the NSC website, Facebook and Instagram and Twitter.

[close] Before the digital age and the current belief that "everyone has a story to tell," there existed a small core of writers recognized from childhood as gifted.I'm proud to say I was one of them. If you are interested in something more challenging than the kind of book that fits neatly into a beach bag,drop by. I've spent a lifetime studying, teaching, and writing meaningful fiction. I'd be honored to share what I know with you.

[close] Phillip: "...Fitzgerald Hemingway and Falkner had to wait until the 20s were in full swing before they became successful writers. There's also the longer gap between WWI and the Roaring 20's and WWII and the 60's. The world - and particularly the USA - took much longer to recover from WWII. A lot of fine writers left Goodreads when it was sold to Amazon, fearing their work had been sold with it. But we still own what we write. We should start a thread somewhere, inviting parallels between the two generations, then edit the results and we'd have a book to sell."

[close] Here is the virtual book group, a place to discuss the winter break reading!