AMC is developing a new TV franchise called “Great American Stories,” which will kick off with a limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rolin Jones ...

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On April 14, John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” celebrates its 80th year. The 1939 novel remains a quintessential piece of American literature still read in homes and classrooms throughout the ...

John Williams has been making wine in California's Napa Valley for nearly 30 years, and he farms so ecologically that his peers call him Mr. Green. But if you ask him how climate change will affect ...

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago this month, John Steinbeck published his masterwork, The Grapes of Wrath. An indelible saga of Oklahoma farmers migrating to California after being displaced by the Dust Bowl, ...

When Steinbeck set off to write The Grapes of Wrath in the 1930s, his goal was crystal clear. He wanted to shame the ruling class, denounce their capitalistic greed that led to the Great Depression ...

Late last week, an email exchange between NPR Books' team members went something like this: Camila: OH MY GOD PIGS EAT BABIES!?!? Nicole: YUP. But then, later, people eat pigs. So, does that make them ...

The role of Ma Joad in the John Steinbeck-Frank Galati play, “The Grapes of Wrath,” is central — in fact, enormously crucial — to the understanding of this Pulitzer Prize-winning story. That’s why Los ...

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