Reading playlist Of Mice and Men
Everything they wanted was just a piece of land — and it was never going to be theirs.
Artists and music for this book
Mississippi John Hurt
Woody Guthrie
Lead Belly
Why this music
The music stays low and earthen, rooted in 1930s country blues and Dust Bowl folk — spare guitar, harmonica, and voices worn thin by weather. It carries the same quiet tenderness Steinbeck gives his two men: warm in the small moments, then hollow as the dream recedes. Nothing swells or resolves; it simply continues, the way loneliness does.