This week marks four years of weekly posts at SteinbeckNow.com celebrating John Steinbeck’s life and work, the relevance of his writing to current events, and new art inspired by his enduring fiction. Features posted in August 2013 included new music, visual art, and creative writing, along with a young painter’s reflection on Steinbeck’s artistic impact and a piece about Steinbeck’s home movies by a professional videographer. Other posts discussed Steinbeck’s writing habits, his scrutiny by the FBI, and the connection between the campaign of character assassination waged against Steinbeck in the 1930s and 1940s and the flight of Edward Snowden. Since launching as an independent, noncommercial site serving John Steinbeck’s international fandom, SteinbeckNow.com has published 365 posts that continue the pattern of originality and diversity set four years ago—previously unpublished critical and creative writing, new art and music, and thoughtful commentary from 60 contributors from as far away as North Africa. Along with critical and creative writing inspired by Steinbeck, news items and reviews are also welcome, provided they are original and do not duplicate existing online content. In keeping with its mission, SteinbeckNow.com does accept advertising or pay for material. If you’d like to be in the picture, email williamray@steinbecknow.com.
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Happy Birthday!!!!
Congratulations on four years of publishing a wealth of original insights on John Steinbeck and his writings. I’m looking forward to many more!
Your enterprise helps to keep Steinbeck alive in the Life of the Mind that is this moment…
You have more to share, I know. But for this much, thank you!
Best wishes,
Roy
“. . . a good writer is the watch-dog of society. His job is to satirize its silliness, to attack its injustices, to stigmatize its faults. . . ”
– A Russian Journal. 1948. Ch 8, p. 158