John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962: The Wayward Bus/Burning Bright/Sweet Thursday/The Winter of Our Discontent/Travels w (Library of America)
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
People frequently ask me questions. Here are eight of the questions with answers. 1. What is your nationality? U.S. citizen. The majority of my ancestors who emigrated from Europe to the New World arrived in the 1600s or in the early 1700s. None arrived after 1842. 2. Are you a Democrat or a Republican? I am a libertarian Republican. 3. What is America's biggest problem? Public schools. Most teachers...
jobsanger (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Political Cartoon is by David Horsey in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Drinks (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Throughout the last couple of years, I feel as though my life in education has been focused on two key areas. Of course, I have branched out the other subjects unwillingly, and even in some rare cases, willingly, but I find myself returning to these two things. Every time. Its the sort of phenomena that can convince you of the existence of God. And not that happy-go-lucky God from the bible. Im talking...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
"Counterinsurgency Plan To Fight Gangs" in Salinas, Calif. : The birthplace of author John Steinbeck, and home to sprawling fields of vegetables, now faces one of the worst per capita gang problems in America. Police say the 24 homicides in Salinas, Calif. this year — all gang-related — make the city twice as deadly as Los Angeles. Frustrated city officials are now turning to...
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Interview with Kristen Stewart to Better.tv She allegedly is dating Robert Pattinson, but she makes a comment about as she's perceived as 'dating someone she's not'. "-What is your favorite book? -Kristen Stewart: "I actually have two. I just finished Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, which was really intense. The other is The Stranger by Albert Camus, that was heavy." Source: famouspick.blogspot.com...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Forgotten Books: A Hidden Place by Robert Charles Wilson In the course of a year I usually read twenty or twenty five novels that impress me. Some for characterization, some for story, some for milieu. But I rarely read a novel that astonishes me. When Robert Charles Wilson's first novel A Hidden Place appeared as a Bantam paperback original in 1986, I wasn't sure what to make of it. I received it...
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
here's part 1 of the Big Green Bookshop favourite books of all time list. I shall expand on this when I get more time, but let's just cut to the chase shall we 50. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 49. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 48. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 47. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 46. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 45. Shipping News...
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Fox News reports Counterinsurgency Plan To Fight Gangs November 23, 2009 - 2:22 PM | by: Claudia Cowan The birthplace of author John Steinbeck, and home to sprawling fields of vegetables, now faces one of the worst per capita gang problems in America. Police say the 24 homicides in Salinas, Calif. this year –all gang-related– make the city twice [...]
GrogNews (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
We don't normally re-post an entire news story. This one's an exception. It's a touchy subject, and deserves to be more fully discussed. It also happens to affect a town where several GN staffers have lived and have family. Check out how the US military is using COIN lessons from overseas to help law enforcement in Salinas, CA SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The blog The Book Cover Archive has come up with a short, short list of its top 10 book covers of the aughts, with another 10 runners-up. There are special mentions for a handful of designers, but really, a group...
Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Joey Heatherton It could have been at the Sam Houston Coliseum, Palm Center, Gulfgate Mall or the Telephone Road Drive-In. But Tom Jacobs nor myself could actually remember the first time we met, other than five years ago, when he hired me at the Pearland Journal … see more. See also: joey heatherton today | brooke [...]
US News & World Report (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Dear Mr. Inman: My daughter is reading John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as I did at her age in high school. I vividly remember seeing on TV in the late 1960s or early ’70s a production of it that followed the novel to the letter, including all the profanity the book contained. I [...]
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
SALINAS, CALIF. -- Famed to readers as the birthplace of John Steinbeck and in supermarket produce circles as the "Salad Bowl of the World," the city of Salinas carries darker renown in the netherworld of California's prisons. Instant respect is accorded any inmate tattooed with the words "Salad Bowl" or "Salis" -- gang shorthand for a city now defined most of all by ferocious...
Feral Jundi (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I found this article to be fascinating. Partly because this is a social experiment of the highest order, and partly because the proof in the pudding for COIN, is to be able to apply those principles to ‘other than war’ insurgencies. So this is a test, and if they can actually get it to [...]
the sad red earth (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A year and and nearly two weeks ago, Julia and I left Los Angeles to travel the country by motorhome and do research for our book on contemporary Native American life. Thursday we returned to L.A., not home quite – because we’ll be setting wheels to road some more, intermittently, throughout the next year – [...]
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