the hopelessness that shock steinbeck is almost a way of life. as a result, and it did does it come up boom towns and boom suburbs that have now turned to bust. -- as a result, boom towns and boom suburbs that have now turned to bust. >> there's a right to privacy in the tent. the right to talk and listen. >> that is how steinbeck describes the camp for migrants. this is a homeless shelter for homeless immigrants. now there is a new kind of customer, the american middle- class. this man was once the manager of a vehicle fleet. they lived in a motel but his unemployment runny ran out. >> when you lose a job, you have to downgrade your life and sometimes those bills start racking up and you only get further and further behind. then you start losing stuff. cars start getting taken, you cannot pay the node. >> can ask you how it is been for you to cope with all of this? >> [inaudible] >> you have been here how many nights? >> this is my second week. >> what is the hardest thing about it? >> well, just having my kids here. they are my number one conce

. >> in the footsteps of john steinbeck, we find out what life is like for americans 20 -- seven years after the great book was published -- more than 70 years after the great book was published. >>> norwegian police have finished their search for bodies on the island. anders breivik has admitted to killing 68 people. prosecutors say he will be interrogated friday. we have this report from oslo. >> at the cathedral, the floral carpet continues to grow. this person knows that one of these attributes could easily been for him. he came face-to-face with the gun man and lift. >>-- and lived,. >> he started shooting around me and he got several of the guys around me. then he had to reload his gun. then i got my chance to get away, and i ran into the water and i started swimming. i got my clothing off, kicked my boots off, and started swimming. if >> was the firing at you? >> he reloaded and started firing again. then he went to the water and shot many of the people trying to escape. luckily, he did not get made. i was just lucky. >> the majority of the people escaped anders breivik, but doe

it's a story reminiscent of that told by john steinbeck in his pulitzer prize winning novel "games of wrath." what kind of journey can the jobe family tell us about modern day society? paul mason has the story. >> with unemployment rising, the great american job search goes on. albuquerque, still suffering from the bust that followed the house price boom, post add fall in unemployment in june, in part deux to a pickup in public sector jobs. for those who don't succeed there's a growing problem, where to live. joy junction is a shelter for the homeless. jeremy reynolds runs it. has it got worse? >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. and i represent -- anticipate it getting even worse. >> why? >> because we have a faltering economy. all these people around here, if you ask them how our rebounding economy has rebounded for them, they will laugh you off the property. >> normally the people here were suffering from drink or violence. now there's a new customer. the american middle class. >> i'm larry and this is my daughter michelle. we're here because of the economic times. my spouse took off on

and uh john -- >> john steinbeck. >> yeah.rite standing up an at a -- like a draft table. you know, one of those tilted tables, and he'd be standing there. and he had a white -- a beautiful white bull terrier who would lie across his feet so that john couldn't move away without angel knowing. [ laughter ] >> he can actually -- he can actually lean all the way back -- [ laughter ] and then lean forward if he felt like doing it. >> and -- so, it's john always wrote in long hand. so, if it was good enough for john steinbeck, it's good enough for me. >> jimmy: i guess so, i mean, oh my gosh, absolutely. [ cheers and applause ] and it's your sixth book. oh my gosh. and you're working on another book, too. >> yeah. this one is about the l.a. zoo. >> now, you love zoos. you're very involved with the zoo, the l.a. zoo. >> i'm involved with zoos all over the world, really, because they're our arks. there so many species would be extinct today if it weren't for being -- and modern zoos, unlike the old, you know "we want one of everythin

john steinbeck will be our next week's profile. what was his relationship? >> they only met once in new york city and i and it was a bia disaster. words were exchanged and a little too much was drunk and hemingway's -- ohara had a beautiful irish stick that hemingway broke over his head and john ste nirks beck thought hemingway was quite a boor. but they greatly admired each other as writers. in fact, i think steinbeck's grapes of wrath" was a great influence on "for whom the bell tolled" and that hemingway's style of writing was a very important influence on steinbeck. >> the question of "for whom the bell tolls request ," the caller wants to know how it stacks up against his other works? >> well, it's not my favorite work of his works. i think that each work he did was very, very different. it's a more traditional novel than his earlier novels "the sun also rises," the "farewell to arms." as a traditional novel, it's a wonderful novel. it is not an historical novel, either, those who study the spanish civil war say that he doesn't really get the accurate d

it is a story reminiscent of that told by john steinbeck in his pulitzer prize-winning novel "the grapesf wrath," which was published 80 years ago. >> with unemployment rising, the great american job search goes on. albuquerque is still suffering from the bus that followed the house price boom. it posted a fall in unemployment in june due in part to a public sector job pick up. but those that do not succeed, there's the problem of where to live. george mÜnchen is a shelter for the homeless. -- joy junction is a shelter for homeless. it is run by jeremy reynolds. >> is it bad? rex absolutely, and i expected to get worse. >> why? >> because we will see more, and some will come back. >> normally the families that came here were coping with drugs or violence. now there is a new customer, the american no class. >> i am larry and this is my daughter, michelle. we are here because of the economic times. my spouse took off on us and that cut our income in half. we lost our place and here we are. >> they have been living like this for three months. he is a truck driver, but he cannot get work. he