SpanishColonies - The Monday Morning Memo

“Steinbeck likes the feel and thought of old things. Maybe because anything old can tell us something new. He’s a huge man, with blue, restless eyes. He writes with a razor as well as compassion, and talks the same way… He writes novels, but avoids reading fiction, preferring books on biology, physics, philosophy, and comic strips.”

“‘Yes, comic strips,’ he says. ‘I read them avidly. Especially Li’l Abner. Al Capp is a great social satirist. Comic strips might be the real literature of our time. We’ll never know what our literature is until we’re gone. But more people read comic strips than books or anything else.'”

- Sidney Fields, The New York Sunday Mirror, March 13, 1955

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