Tony Award-winner, Chicago stage champion Frank Galati dies
January 3, 2023 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Frank Galati, an actor, director, teacher and adapter who was a pivotal figure in Chicago's theater community and a two-time Tony Award winner, died Monday, according to Steppenwolf Theatre.
Rare John Steinbeck column probes strength of US democracy
October 28, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Decades ago, as communists and suspected communists were being blacklisted and debates spread over the future of American democracy, John Steinbeck — a resident of Paris at the time — often found himself asked about the headlines from his native country.
Steinbeck’s tender letter to son sells for more than $32,000
October 13, 2022 GMTBOSTON (AP) — A heartfelt letter written by author John Steinbeck offering paternal advice to his teenage son who was experiencing love for the first time has sold at auction for more than $32,000.
Steinbeck’s letter to son on love, ‘the best thing,’ on sale
October 5, 2022 GMTBOSTON (AP) — A tender and touching letter that author John Steinbeck penned to his teenage son, offering fatherly advice after the young man confided that he was in love for the first time, is going up for auction.
Maine island library wants your banned books
March 19, 2022 GMTMATINICUS ISLAND, Maine (AP) — There’s an “Island of Misfit Toys” in the popular holiday classic. Now there's an island for unwanted and banned books, too.
The tiny library on Matinicus Island 22 miles (35 kilometers) off the Maine coast is on a mission to fill its shelves with books that have fallen out of favor elsewhere.
Georgia teacher creates library of books others tried to ban
March 13, 2022 GMTSAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia teacher has created his own library for sharing books that others have tried to ban.
Richard Clifton, an English teacher at the Savannah Arts Academy, started the “little free library” in his front yard during the pandemic to share books with his neighbors.
Today in History
November 24, 2021 GMTToday in History
Today is Wednesday, Nov. 24, the 328th day of 2021. There are 37 days left in the year.
Crews douse 2nd recent Vegas-area Walmart paper items fire
April 14, 2021 GMTLAS VEGAS (AP) — For the second time this month, people evacuated a Las Vegas-area Walmart while firefighters and ceiling sprinklers doused a paper products fire...
Supreme Court declines to get involved in Steinbeck dispute
October 5, 2020 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision awarding the late John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter $5 million in a family dispute over abandoned plans for movies of some of Steinbeck's best-known works...
Alexie, Pilkey books among most ‘challenged’ of past decade
September 27, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Toni Morrison is on the list. So are John Green and Harper Lee. And John Steinbeck and Margaret Atwood...
Future uncertain for restaurant in John Steinbeck birthplace
July 27, 2020 GMTSALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Loss of business due to the coronavirus is forcing closure of a restaurant in the house where novelist John Steinbeck was born in California’s Salinas Valley, and it’s not known whether it will reopen...
Critics of Oprah book club title put new novel on trial
March 5, 2020 GMTTUCSON, Arizona (AP) — When Oprah Winfrey chose the novel “American Dirt” for her book club, she imagined engaging in an impassioned television dialog about the narrative, which follows a Mexican mother and her son fleeing to the United States...
Winfrey chooses the novel “American Dirt” for her book club
January 21, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Jeanine Cummins' “American Dirt,” one of the year's most anticipated and debated novels, is Oprah Winfrey's new pick for her book club...
Court cuts jury award, warns Steinbeck kin to end litigation
September 11, 2019 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court attempted to close the book on endless litigation between the relatives of author John Steinbeck in a ruling that upheld a $5 million verdict against his daughter-in-law, but threw out $8 million she faced in punitive damages...
Judges to hear appeal in lawsuit over John Steinbeck works
August 5, 2019 GMTANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Another chapter is set to play out this week in a decades-old family dispute over control of the classic works by author John Steinbeck...
Rare Steinbeck story, set in Paris, published this week
July 30, 2019 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Ernest Hemingway wasn't the only Great American Writer with something to say about Paris...
California town wants to be a sanctuary _ for gun owners
July 3, 2019 GMTNEEDLES, Calif. (AP) — The Old West desert town of Needles, California, is where the beleaguered Joad family crossed the Colorado River into California in John Steinbeck's classic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" and was a boyhood home to "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz...
Today in History
April 14, 2019 GMTToday in History
Today is Sunday, April 14, the 104th day of 2019. There are 261 days left in the year...
People priced out of Salinas, California, look to the ballot
October 19, 2018 GMTSALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Middle-school English teacher Maryam Powers doesn't take vacations. To earn additional money, she picks up an extra period of teaching when she can and mentors new hires...
A look at Salinas, California, farm-rich but unaffordable
October 18, 2018 GMTSALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Here's a look at some key information about Salinas, one of the nation's least affordable metro areas to live...
Hemingway story from 1956 published for first time
August 2, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — The themes and trappings are familiar for an Ernest Hemingway narrative: Paris, wartime, talk of books and wine and the scars of battle...