And then after class said that she would like to teach another one where the question is “should we even have a livestock industry at all?”. I told her that I’d love to teach one where I just make the students repeatedly read The Jungle and Grapes of Wrath until they start burning shit down and she replied that it already seems like we’re heading that way.
My only good professor.
i mostly couldn’t stand to read his awful prose. he failed as an author prior to the jungle, probably on the merits, and whatever writing award he won was many years later.
He was no John Steinbeck, that is for sure. I always point people towards Cannery Row for Great Depression story telling personally, though it can be abit nostalgic at times.