NP - Springsteen's Reading List

[alice malice]

In the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Cassill & Bausch include
this one from John Steinbeck, an excellent example of his art:

http://nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/4/steinbeck/chrysanthemums.htm


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
> I've lived here in Central California for a long time and Grapes of Wrath was required reading in high school.  The Okies were still discriminated against when I first moved here at age 16 (I did manage to get away for a few years in there, though.)
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> I enjoy Steinbeck sometimes,  but I think he was a product of the era - he was panned by the eastern critics - the “new critics” (?) especially when he won the Nobel.
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> My favorite is Tortilla Flat but I have a very soft spot in my heart for Of Mice and Men.  Imo the man got very cynical as he got older and more famous - it shows in books like The Winter of Our Discontent.  I think it was the women and the money.
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> The National Steinbeck Center is just up the road a few pieces and I’ve never been.  (shame)
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> Bekah
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>> On Nov 3, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Matthew Taylor <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Can't say that would have been more amusing, since we would have just assumed he'd read the book as he claimed.
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>> Springsteen has been one of my favorite musicians for years, and, although Steinbeck doesn't do much for me at this point, reading him when I was young and growing up in central California was powerful and formative. Of his work that I've revisited, I have actually appreciated Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat the most, though those are rarely mentioned when people talk about him.
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>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would it have been more amusing if he'd said he had, but hadn't?
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>> Most people have only seen the film, which was a damned good one.  And I have to admit that Steinbeck is not one of my favorite authors.
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>> David Morris
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>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Matthew Taylor <matthew.taylor923 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did find it amusing that he admitted to not having read Grapes of Wrath when he wrote "The Ghost of Tom Joad."
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>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, it seems Springsteen has good literary taste.
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>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Where's the "like" button here?
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>> On Monday, November 3, 2014, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/favorites.html
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>> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:29 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/03/bruce-springsteen-reading-list-favorite-books/
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>> >> Moby-Dick (free download; public library) by Herman Melville
>> >> How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (public library) by Sarah Bakewell
>> >> Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe (public library) by Dennis Overbye
>> >> Love in the Time of Cholera (public library) by Gabriel García Márquez
>> >> Anna Karenina (free download; public library) by Leo Tolstoy
>> >> Leaves of Grass (public library) by Walt Whitman
>> >> The History of Western Philosophy (public library) by Bertrand Russell
>> >> Examined Lives (public library) by Jim Miller
>> >> American Pastoral (public library) by Philip Roth
>> >> I Married a Communist (public library) by Philip Roth
>> >> Blood Meridian (public library) by Cormac McCarthy
>> >> The Road (public library) by Cormac McCarthy
>> >> The Sportswriter (public library) by Richard Ford
>> >> The Lay of the Land (public library) by Richard Ford
>> >> Independence Day (public library) by Richard Ford
>> >> A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (public library) by Flannery O’Connor
>> >> Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music (public library) byGreil Marcus
>> >> Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (public library) by Peter Guralnick
>> >> Chronicles (public library) by Bob Dylan
>> >> Sonata for Jukebox (public library) by Geoffrey O’Brien
>> >> Soul Mining: A Musical Life (public library) by Daniel Lanois
>> >> Too Big to Fail (public library) by Andrew Ross Sorkin
>> >> Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression (public library) by Dale Maharidge
>> >> The Big Short (public library) by Michael Lewis
>> >> The Brothers Karamazov (free download; public library) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
>> >> Great Short Works (public library) by Leo Tolstoy
>> >> The Adventures of Augie March (public library) by Saul Bellow
>> >> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (public library) by L. Frank Baum
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