The Grapes of Wrath News

At 15, San Jose teenager Lewis Buzbee read John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and, in a fit of youthful inspiration, began his own writing career later that evening.

Durham Technical Community College, in conjunction with the North Central Literacy Collaborative's celebration of the "The Big Read" project, will host a discussion of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" on ...

One blogger at MyDD has done just that, offering this speculative list of nine possible female candidates for president, four years hence.

IT HAPPENS that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it.

Noted Colorado Shakespeare Festival actor Sean Tarrant is joined in Colorado Springs with Josh Clayton, standing, , who appeared in the Denver Center's "Plainsong," in TheatreWorks' "The Grapes of Wrath." If ...

October 3, 2008 AT 06:34PM Ed Helms makes X-wing and Y-wing fighters from office supplies on the set of The Office .

What do an insightful out-of-towner, a retired security guard and a onetime field worker down South all have in common? Their lives were shaped in part by the Great Depression.

A hard working family, struggles to make ends meet during tough economic times. Sound familiar? It's the subject of the classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath.

"Obscene in the Extreme," by Rick Wartzman . Local connection: This account of the burning and banning of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" chronicles one of the less illustrious moments in the history of ...

"But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy." Excerpt from To a Mouse, on ...

Champagne, France Dawn's chill at last surrendered to the warmth of the mid-morning sun, as rows of verdant grapevines revealed their fruit seductively.

PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared war on corporate barons who fire thousands of employees, drive firms into the ground and walk away from the ruins with multimillion-dollar bonuses.

Let's get a grip, okay? Sure, the global financial markets are reeling after a string of dubious decisions by borrowers, lenders and the entire political power structure.

Now that the mighty engine of the American economy is set to grind to a halt - now that it's teetering on the edge of a giant sinkhole, the likes of which we haven't seen since Henry Fonda said goodbye to Ma ...

Seventy-five years ago Colorado Springs teetered on the rim of the Dust Bowl, as the high plains to the east and south were plowed up, and blew away, and then came crashing back to Earth in powerful dust storms ...

Horace Engdahl has stuck his little stick of dynamite into the fundament of the literary world with his declaration that American literature is "too isolated and insular", too much up its own fundament, that ...

The world premiere of Kafka on the Shore , adapted for the stage and directed by Frank Galati, based on the book by Haruki Murakami, opens Sept.

Emma Grace Goh, 4, sits in the aisle Wednesday as Larry Frank, Knox County Library director, reads an excerpt from John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" at the "Big Read" kickoff event in Market Square.

An actual 1930s-era Chevy truck gets parked onstage during UCCS Theatreworks' production of The Grapes of Wrath .

"Lucky thing for me I have The Waltons television series on video. I showed it to my kids and told them they're going to have to wear overalls soon, but that the only thing they have to fear is fear itself." ...