Reading – Craig Hodgkins

20 Mar 2016

Books: The WPA and the American Guide Series

by Craig Hodgkins | posted in: Books, Entertainment, History, Popular Culture, Reading | 1

I first came across a reference to the American Guide Series in John Steinbeck’s penultimate work, Travels with Charley (1962). I was in high school, and here’s part of what I read: “If there had been room in Rocinante I … Continued

11 Mar 2016

Books: Frank Fenton and “A Place in the Sun”

by Craig Hodgkins | posted in: Biography, Profile, Reading, Screenwriting, Writing & Writers | 2

It’s really all Joseph Henry Jackson’s fault. In June of 2002, I picked up Jackson’s Continent’s End: A Collection of California Writing (1944). As a collector of western lit — specifically on my native California — I regularly thumb through … Continued