John Steinbeck News

Fresh juices, jams and reductions are key ingredients in cocktails being served at the new Jack Rose Libation House.

The limb onto which all "writers" tiptoe before subjecting their work to public scrutiny is thin, brittle and precarious, but imagine the ego-shattering impact waiting below for a second-generation American writer whose name happens to be Steinbeck.

I was hoping to regale you with decorating tips and pictures of my decorated home, but alas, 'twas not to be.

In what is shaping up to be among the starriest productions of Broadway's spring lineup, Leighton Meester has signed up for Of Mice and Men , appearing opposite previously announced leads James Franco and Chris O'Dowd .

This past holiday I spent a week with family in my hometown of Salinas, California.

"A Russian Journal" was published 65 years ago, but it is the arguably among the most honest foreign reporting for its keen powers of observation, droll humor and sheer lack of conclusion about the place.

Film actor James Franco seems to have done a little bit of everything with his still young career - acting, screenwriting, directing, teaching and being a famously truant NYU graduate student.

The waiting room was almost empty. No surprise given the early hour. The clinic would not open for 20 minutes.

ELAINE MARSILIO/CALLER-TIMES Tuloso-Midway High School ninth-grader Jenna Riley, 14, holds one of the fliers students placed around the campus Monday.

Hollywood golden boy James Franco and Irish comedian Chris O'Dowd will make their Broadway debuts this spring in a new revival of John Steinbeck's literary classic Of Mice and Men .

George and Lennie have found a home on Broadway! A new revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men , starring Oscar nominee James Franco and Chris O'Dowd, will begin performances March 19, 2014 at the Longacre Theatre.

Next year James Franco will add Broadway star to an ever-swelling resume that includes actor, poet, director and Oscar host.

Book Week Scotland starts tomorrow and the nation has been busy voting for its favourite novel of the last 50 years.

I was living in Tennessee, and I'd bought my dream car, a Big Bird or 1963 pearl white Thunderbird complete with a 390-cubic-inch Ford V-8 engine, brushed aluminum cockpit interior and black leather bucket seats.

The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is asking for input in selecting the next title for the Big Read.

"Of Mice and Men," John Steinbeck's tragic 1937 tale about the illusory nature of the American Dream, is classic because its idea of the fragility of human existence remains a universal truth which repeats itself time and again.