Cocktails in Kiev
Listening time: 2 minutes. On their travels to the Soviet Union in 1946, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa...
The age of rumours
Why let facts get in the way of a good prejudice? When John Steinbeck and Robert Capa let people know...
The translation of thinking
Steinbeck seeks to understand the difficulties his interpreters faced when supporting him on his trip to the Soviet Union with...
Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so...
Mail at last
We forget, swamped as we are with constant connectivity, the past hunger for letters and news when travelling. I remember...
Steinbeck on Capa
John Steinbeck was a good friend of the photographer Robert Capa, with whom he spent a month travelling in the...
A capacious book thief
Steinbeck and Robert Capa spent a month in the Soviet Union. It took some time for Steinbeck to cotton on...
It happens to the best of them
Isn't it somehow reassuring that even the Steinbecks of the world can have creative meltdowns? Here he describes a play...
War wounds
Listening time: 4 minutes.
Among the warm-hearted and even funny accounts of people they met in the Soviet...
On cultural relations
John Steinbeck and Robert Capa wrestle with their status in seeking some Soviet organization which would be willing to adopt...
All you need is love
Another description by Steinbeck's widow of yet another of his writing spaces, which comprised mostly rooms but some other curious...
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