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...Through his brother Leonard, Safire was hired as legman for journalistic impresario Tex McCrary, then writing a personality column for the New York Herald Tribune, acting as host on a radio show and dabbling in G.O.P. politics. Safire soon decided that he "could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels." Safire spent most of the 1950s working for the dynamic, yet erratic McCrary, goading him into public relations, which Safire saw as "the most adventuresome business there was." As his brother Leonard puts it, "When Bill was at the impressionable age when...
...Wolfe writes, apparently forgetting such pre-1930s writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser. He adds that while five of the first six American Nobel laureates in literature were what he describes as realistic novelists (Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck), by the '60s young writers and intellectuals regarded their kind of realism as "an embarrassment...
...GRAPES OF WRATH. Grittier than the movie, as panoramic as Steinbeck's novel, this 35-actor adaptation by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe lights up California's La Jolla Playhouse stage on the way to a late-June run at London's National Theater...
...GRAPES OF WRATH. Grittier than the movie, as panoramic as Steinbeck's novel, this 35-actor adaptation by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe lights up the La Jolla Playhouse stage on the way to a late June run at London's National Theater...
...warm-up exercises for the day's work. He gave himself pep talks: "This must be a good book. It simply must. I haven't any choice." To readers today, the fascination of this document rests in its portrait of an artist at the peak of his skills. Steinbeck's outrage at the mistreatment of Dust Bowl migrants in California, which he had witnessed firsthand, fused with his storytelling abilities to produce the most powerful book he would ever write. It won him the Pulitzer Prize and contributed mightily to his Nobel Prize in 1962. Both exhilarated and exhausted after...