August 6, 2010. This week in Salinas, City of Letters, and in Paris, Hanoi, Mexico City, Berlin, Amsterdam, Krakow and the Sea of Cortez, the first worldwide Steinbeck Festival is under way. In its 30th year, the festival is presented by the...
(1) Comments | Posted April 23, 2010 | 2:47 PM
Beirut, April 18. It's 6:00 a.m. in the Riviera Hotel off the Corniche in Beirut and the café is buzzing with conversation. The Saudi Arabian novelist Abdullah Thabit, the Iraqi poet Bassim al Ansar and the Egyptian novelist Hamdy el Gazzar have been up all night, talking. It's been like...
(0) Comments | Posted October 5, 2009 | 1:44 PM
Salinas, CA -- October 5, 2009 -- On Sunday, September 27, 15,000 people--that's ten percent of the town's population--turned out to celebrate the 100th birthday of the Salinas Public Library, and the remarkable story of what a community's devotion to its library can accomplish. The library served thousands of pieces...
(2) Comments | Posted August 9, 2010 | 12:00 PM