The volumes pair nicely, both as studies of Steinbeck and of the process of making books. More important are two new books from distinguished Steinbeck scholars Jackson J. For the most part these are collections of articles, essays, and interviews already published elsewhere.
In addition, a number of critical works also appeared in 1989. Because a half century has not diminished the power of Steinbeck's classic as either social document or as American epic, it still more than repays rereading. Most appropriate among the books is a Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of The Grapes of Wrath from Viking with a new introduction by Studs Terkel both the handsome volume and the workman-like introduction bring the reader directly back to the novel itself. Among them were several scholarly symposia, a number of features in the popular media, and the publication of a half-dozen books. Nineteen eighty-nine, the fiftieth anniversary of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, was marked by many literary events in homage to both the writer and his single great work.
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