Results for "DeMott, Robert"

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowle... Read More about Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowle... Read More about Steinbeck's Imaginarium: Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

" Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art] collects several of DeMott's finest essays on Steinbeck... that are] so carefully revised as to warn other critics seeking their own 'collected essay' volume of the difference between a genuinely lapidary compilation and a kitchen midden. Illustrated wit... Read More about Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.... Read More about The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.... Read More about The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)

Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated offers a judicious selection of interviews spanning the writing career of Jim Harrison (1937-2016) from its beginnings in the 1960s to the last interview he gave weeks before his death in March 2016. Harrison labeled himself and lived as a "quadra... Read More about Conversations with Jim Harrison, Revised and Updated (Literary Conversations)