Started a book I can't put down: Rick Wartzman's Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Focusing on a single week in 1939, the book reads like a suspense novel, and I can't stop turning the pages. Quite a read. Alas, it also sounds very contemporary.
P.S. This book is less gripping later on when the author expands the focus to put the story in historical context. I would have preferred a tighter focus. This could have been a little gem, like Aram Saroyan's Genesis Angels, the best book ever written about the Beats. I ended up being disappointed (of course, I already knew all the history and context.)
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