We made it to California! And if you're reading along, you, like us, are two-thirds of the way through John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl classic. So it's time again for us to gather and share our thoughts.

Watching movies in class! A no-brainer!!!” (My students, all girls in the independent school where I taught, frequently spoke in exclamation points.) Imagine their shock when I handed them “The Grapes ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the first of an occasional series about John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” during this, the novel’s 75th anniversary year. Back in 1938, ...

Wednesday marks 82 years since the 1939 publication of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” by Viking Press in New York City. Considered his most successful work, it sold more than 400,000 copies ...

The I-Will-If-You-Will Book Club is reading John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl classic. (Some of us for the very first time!) Join us in the comments to... We made it to California! And if you're reading ...

Camila: Not a spoiler cus it's NOT EVEN A BIG DEAL. That's the worst part. It's just like "Oh yeah, remember the time that pig ate that baby? Memories." Clearly, some of us were still working on our ...

A family prepares to leave Oklahoma for California in 1939, just as the Joads did in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. (Library of Congress) ...