Steinbeck lovers are invited to a reading of In Dubious Battle, John F. Levin’s stage adaptation of Steinbeck’s Great Depression labor-strike novel, at California’s Mill Valley Public Library on Tuesday, November 4. The free 7:00 p.m. event is sponsored by the library and the Playwrights’ Lab, the play-development program of the Throckmorton Theatre, a popular Marin County performing arts venue. Hal Gelb—the producing director of the Playwrights’ Lab and a frequent writer for The New York Times, The Nation, and Bay Area print and broadcast outlets—directs. John F. Levin, the author, is a San Francisco-based screenwriter and freelance journalist whose work has appeared in New West, Oui, and McCalls. Mill Valley, host of the Mill Valley Film Festival, is located in southern Marin County, immediately north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge.