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Why Baseball, Books, and the Grateful Dead matter


Steinbeck, John

  • “In my time, Ernest Hemingway wrote a certain kind of story better and more effectively than it had ever been done before.  He was properly accepted and acclaimed. He was imitated almost slavishly by every young writer, including me, not only in America but in the world.  He wrote a special kind of story out… Read more

  • Literary Coffee Morning

    He put on a pot of coffee, started the Great Fugue on the phonograph, and took a shower. He was very quick about it, for he was dressed in clean clothes and was having his cup of coffee before the music was completed. He looked out through the window at the lot and up at… Read more

  • Literary Coffee Invasion

    Mayor Orden looked at his watch and when Joseph came in, carrying a small cup of black coffee, he took it absent-mindedly. “Thank you,” he said, and he sipped it. “I should be clear,” he said apologetically to Doctor Winter. “I should be—do you know how many men the invader has?” “Not many,” the doctor… Read more