The Grapes of Wrath News

Art from Jim Blashfield's video for "Leave Me Alone" The information overload surrounding the death of Michael Jackson has already reached the suffocation point.

Chichester favourite Christopher Timothy returns to Chichester Festival Theatre this summer in The Grapes Of Wrath.

" ... in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath.

A $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts is funding a series of Camden County College activities focusing on John Steinbeck's Depression-era novel The Grapes of Wrath.

Company One presents Tony-winning adapter and director Frank Galati's play, which is adapted from two stories from Haruki Murakami's After the Quake , a collection set in Japan in 1995 between the Kobe earthquake and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subway.

It's a good thing books don't have calories because I've spent this summer gorging myself.

By John Ellingham IT IS an American icon, 2,400 miles long, thousands are drawn to see it every year a ' yet it doesn't actually exist.

The Salinas Valley is John Steinbeck country. Throughout his career as an author, Steinbeck wove his experiences growing up and working in the "Long Valley" into his books.

Duration: 1:55:29 CC Stereo TVPG Many of our finest writers have dared to wrestle with the inequities that lie in the shadows, beyond the dream -- class and money and, often, a false promise of upward mobility.

The lives of ordinary people struggling with the demands of personal circumstance and the wider world's imperatives have offered rich material for fiction since the modern novel was in its infancy.

"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.

Writing is a difficult skill. There are an infinite amount of words and combinations that can and will affect people whether for better or for worse.

The Wall Street Journal has a great story this morning about people who have become semi-nomad because of the recession.

Sayre Public Library is the recipient of a Big Read grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to promote literature in the community.

By CASEY KNAUPP Staff Writer The Tyler Public Library has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to be a part of the 2010 Big Read.

Each August, movie fans come out of the sun and park themselves on the sofa for the latest edition of Turner Classic Movies' ultimate movie star showcase: Summer Under the Stars.

We'd like to dedicate our poem "Our Great Depression" to Dr. Matthew Mason, who has taught us all we will ever want to know about our American heritage, and to our fellow students, who suffered along with us.

NPR.org has a piece about that shelf of those "great" books you feel guilty about never getting around to reading.

Sprinkled through the movie industry's filmography of Western shoot 'em ups, romantic comedies, high drama and science fiction epics, you can find some serious-and sometimes humorous-cinema focused on workers, workplace struggles and economic justice.

Television schedules are no strangers to sad coincidences. At the time this column was filed, Fox had scheduled an episode of "Mental" guest-starring David Carradine as a patient whose condition inspires Dr.