Sept. 29 marks the beginning of the American Library Association's annual "Banned Books Week," a commemoration of all the books that have ever been removed from library shelves and classrooms.

“On Reading the Grapes of Wrath,” by Susan Shillinglaw. (Penguin. $14). Local connection: Monterey Peninsula resident Susan Shillinglaw was the director of the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose ...

Among those chasing the book were Robert Redford, whose Sundance label was looking to partner with Dark Shadows producer David Kennedy to turn The Grapes Of Wrath into a miniseries at FX. That was ...

We made it to California! And if you're reading along, you, like us, are two-thirds of the way through John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl classic. So it's time again for us to gather and share our thoughts.

2 of 6 — Dust Bowl farmer drives a tractor with his son near Cland, N.M. (1938) Steinbeck writes: "The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the ...

John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl saga has been on required reading lists for decades, but somehow a lot of us at NPR Books have never read it. (We know! We know!) So when we realized the 75th anniversary ...

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