Pearls? Clutched. Grits? Kissed.

Coffee Break issue #51 Hi Reader. My junior year in high school, the honors English department was mired in an unprecedented, sweeping plagiarism scandal. 😱 We’d recently turned in our final papers on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, which was one of our summer reading assignments that year. This book was a slog — an epic, Oregon Trail situation tracking the Joad family’s westward migration from the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Great Depression. Heavy stuff for a bunch of 16-year-olds...