The Rescue of John Steinbeck - The New York Review of Books

This was a good line

The Rescue of John Steinbeck - "Steinbeck's heart, as always, is in the right place, but there's something artificial about Charley: many of the encounters he reports sound like pure inventions. His son John put it bluntly: 'Thom and I are convinced that he never talked to any of those people.... He just sat in his camper and wrote all that shit.'"