Clay at Point Lobos Ca.
An exciting new addition to Clay’s slate of LTA Cultural Tours for 2025! We’re headed to Steinbeck Country — California's Central Coast. On this tour we’ll visit Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, and just across the Santa Lucia mountains, the author’s hometown of Salinas. These California landscapes stayed close to Steinbeck’s heart throughout his life and shaped the Nobel Prize-winning author’s indelible literary legacy.
Best selling author Louis L'Amour and his son Beau L'Amour.
Louis L’Amour is widely considered the best-selling author of Western fiction of all time. Still highly popular with readers around the globe, L’Amour has sold over 320 million books, with numerous film and TV adaptations of his work.
Statue at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River Utah
John Wesley Powell, the extraordinary one-armed Civil War veteran, was the first to explore the canyons of the Colorado Plateau by river. His remarkable story still fascinates and inspires me.
Shakespeare & Company, the famous English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris.
In Paris, France, this week Clay stops in at Shakespeare and Company, a legendary English-language bookshop in the heart of Paris.
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President Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson in the Oval Office.
In preparation for a cultural tour of Cuba Clay will lead later this month, he came across a surprising connection between John Steinbeck, Adlai Stevenson, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Why I’m Changing The Channel

Clay details how cable news has long failed to reliably serve Americans, why he is tuning out, and what he’ll do instead.
Clay on Route 66 near Neeedles, Calfornia, summer 2024.
Clay sat down with editors at LTA to answer questions and discuss his recent 41 State, 21,000 mile journey around America.
Steinbeck House, Salinas
Earlier last summer Clay visited Steinbeck’s childhood home in Salinas, California.
Lochsa Lodge in Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains and site of Clay's annual hummanites retreats.
Clay reports from his annual humanities retreat near the Montana-Idaho border in the Northern Rockies.
Clay reads from his
During a long life of hard reading, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is the book that helps me understand what it is to be human.