There can really be no value in publishing this thing. Steinbeck wrote it in frustration as a purely commercial effort, before selling even his first novel (Cup of Gold, which sucks), and he viewed this book with contempt even as he wrote it.https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1396525652124262407 …
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This has nothing to do with his feelings or needs. It has to do with the quality of the work.
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I don't think Greene set out to write bad books, though! Again, my Steinbeck shelf is in boxes but his letters make clear he intended this to be awful tripe
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Arthur Conan Doyle thought his Sherlock Holmes stories were twaddle that detracted from his serious work. John Marquand and Evan Hunter had the same take on their genre fiction
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