The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter is published twice a year under the auspices of the Publications Unit of the English Department at Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4240. Each issue of the The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter includes scholarly essays on Lewis's writings, mentions of Lewis in the news and in scholarship, and news of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown. There are occasional features on how to teach Lewis's works and news for book collectors, as well as calls for papers. Departments in most issues include Sinclair Lewis Miscellany, It Can't Happen Here News, Inquiring Minds (queries received), Book Notes, and What Were They Reading Then?—short essays about books popular when Lewis was writing.
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Below is a listing of highlights from each issue of the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter.
"New Play Based on Novel and Film of Sinclair Lewis's Free Air," by John Loch, Rosemount Area Arts Council
"The Filming of the Silent Movie of Sinclair Lewis's Free Air," by John Loch, Rosemount Area Arts Council
"George Macy's Readers Club (1941-1943) and Sinclair Lewis," by Shaun F. Richards, Finger Lakes Community College
"Lost Boundaries"
"Making Her Way in the Big City: Carrie Meeber in Sister Carrie and Una Golden in The Job," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Favorite Books by Our Members"
"Literary Legends: Poll of Minnesotans Reveals Sinclair Lewis as the State's Favorite Author of All Time"
"The (Self-) Importance of Being American: A Lesser-Known Lewis Essay on the American Expatriate Artists in 1920s Paris," by Shaun F. Richards Finger Lakes Community College
In Memoriam: Benjamin R. Beede and Robert Gottlieb
"Translating Arrowsmith: An Interview with Rusty Allred"
"A Contemporary Review of Lewis's Biography: Charles Shain's Review of Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Shorer," By Shaun F. Richards
"Lewis and Thompson Featured in Freedom's Furies: A Review of Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness by Timothy Sandefur," by Ralph Goldstein
"Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and "The Slap Heard 'Round the World'"
"What Were They Reading Then?: Raw Gold by James B. Hendryx," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Lewis's Additions to the New Republic's "'Good Books That Almost Nobody Has Read'"
"Sinclair Lewis Letters Online at St. Cloud State University," by Tom Steman, St. Cloud State University
"New Adaptation of Babbitt to Be Staged at La Jolla Playhouse"
In Memoriam: Eugene H. Winick
"Real America: A Speech about Sinclair Lewis by Lion Feuchtwanger," with an introduction and translation by Sean Nye, University of Southern California
"'Good Morning, America!': A Retrospective of the 2022 Sinclair Lewis Virtual Conference," by Shaun F. Richards
"Opening Remarks for the 2022 Sinclair Lewis Conference," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre," by Marcia Noe
"Robert L. McLaughlin's Sinclair Lewis Scholarship"
"Play of Main Street Produced at University of Minnesota Duluth," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"Revisiting Sinclair Lewis's Kingsblood Royal," by Andy Kantar, Ferris State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: "Look Homeward, Angel," by Thomas Wolfe, 1929," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Backstage with The Life and Loves of Sinclair Lewis"
"Sinclair Lewis Society Announces Virtual Conference for Summer 2022"
"Remembering Daniel Chabris"
"Letter from the Editor: Sinclair Lewis Society Celebrates 30 Years!," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"New York Times Book Review Celebrates Lewis and Babbitt"
"Babbitt and Thucydides?," by Rex Levang
"Significant Writer: Flawed Man: A Review of The Life and Loves of Sinclair Lewis by Bob Beverage," by Sean C. Denniston
"The Life and Loves of Sinclair Lewis Celebrates the Life of Sinclair Lewis 100 Years after the Publication of Main Street"
"Minnesota Historical Society Features Exhibit on Sinclair Lewis"
"A Complex Year for a Celebration: A Review of Isabel Marín Gómez's 'Sinclair Lewis and Main Street in Spain: The Contribution of the Literature of Social Change on Contemporary History," La Razón Histórica 49, 2020, by Ralph Goldstein
"Helen Hayes and Vaccination," by Susan O'Brien
"Calliing Dr. de Kruif: A Review of A Constant State of Emergency: Paul de Kruif: Microbe Hunter and Health Activist, by Jan Peter Verhave," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"What Were They Reading Then?: "It," by Elinor Glyn, 1927," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"'She Was a Worker in the Theater': Backstage Industry and the Stage-Struck Girl in Sinclair Lewis's Bethel Merriday," by Maya Cantu, Bennington College
"Dr. Arrowsmith Hangs Out His Shingle," by Dennis Morgan, MD
"He Was an Atheist; Oh Yes, He Really Was," by Dennis Dalman
"Sister Mara Helped Shaped Book on Sinclair Lewis," by Dennis Dalman
"Marcella Powers: Life after Sinclair Lewis," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Arrowsmith Endures in the Pandemic," by Ralph Goldstein
"Mr. Lewis Goes to China: Studying Sinclair Lewis's Novels in China," by Chen Ying, College of Foreign Languages, Inner Mongolia University, China
"Introducing Sinclair Lewis": A Review of Becoming Sinclair Lewis by David Allen Simpkins, with Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University and Jim Umhoefer, by Ted G. Fleener
"Trapped on Main Street," a Conversation
"What Were They Reading Then?: Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley, 1917 and 1919," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Read the Fall 2020 SLS Newsletter
"Lewis and Thompson and the Writers' War Board," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"The Filming of Free Air"
"An Interview with Ken Cuthbertson, Author of Inside: The Biography of John Gunther," by Susan O'Brien
"Sinclair Lewis as Seen through the Eyes of Ernest Hemingway's Biographers," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Sinclair Lewis, Dante, and the Jews," a discussion by Mark Bernheim, Sally E. Parry, and Ralph Goldstein
"Sinclair Lewis," by George Simmers from Great War Fiction Plus
Read the Spring 2020 SLS Newsletter
Main Street Turns 100!
"Sinclair Lewis at the Library"
"John Gunther and Sinclair Lewis," by Susan O'Brien
"Teaching Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Following Sinclair Lewis's Kingsblood Royal," by Paul Devlin, Merchant Marine Academy
"Sinclair Lewis at the American Literature Association Conference"
"Alcohol and the Literary Imagination: A Review of Alcoholite at the Altar: The Writer and Addiction, by Roger Forseth," by Jimmy J. Pack, Jr., Penn State Abington
"What Were They Reading Then?: The Tyranny of the Dark, by Hamlin Garland, 1905," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: The Voice of Bugle Ann, by MacKinlay Kantor, 1935," by Ted G. Fleener
Read the Fall 2019 SLS Newsletter
"Zenith on the Liffey: Sinclair Lewis and James Joyce," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Lewis's Lasting Conocimiento: Ann Vickers in Spain," by Ralph Goldstein
"Book Burning: Not the Spark of Fascism but the Ashes of Democracy," by Andrew Stevens, Illinois State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: Weeds by Edith Summers Kelley, 1923," by Rebecca Pugsley, College of St. Scholastica
"Dorothy Thompson and Her Advice to American Women," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Why Writer Sinclair Lewis Keeps Paying Dividends from Pittsfield, and Will Forever," by Larry Parnass, the Berkshire Eagle
Read the Spring 2019 SLS Newsletter
Tributes to Joyce Lyng and Jacqueline Koenig
"On the Road Again: A Review of Adventures in Autobumming by Sinclair Lewis," by Maggie Bandur
"Pointy Hats and Pointed Purpose: How the Klan of the 1920s Fulfilled the Warnings of Sinclair Lewis," by Bob Ruggiero
"Publish and Perish: The Remarkably Parallel Lives, and Deaths, of Sinclair Lewis and Stefan Zweig," by Roy Lacoursiere
"Sinclair Lewis and Dave Simpkins: Two Old Newspapermen," by Jim Umhoefer
"Dorothy Thompson and Germany: A Review of Dorothy Thompson and German Writers in Defense of Democracy by Karina von Tippelskirch," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Read the Fall 2018 SLS Newsletter
"Tribute to Dave Simpkins"
"Fresh Pastures: Sinclair Lewis Buys Thorvale Farm," by Susan O'Brien
"Straight Out of South Dakota: A Review of From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965 by Jon K. Lauk," by Ralph Goldstein
"Ruth Suckow: Iowa Gem," by Ted G. Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools (retired)
"What Were They Reading Then?: A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann, 1929," by Rick Diguette, Georgia State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: Country People by Ruth Suckow, 1924," by Ted G. Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools (retired)
Read the Spring 2018 SLS Newsletter
"It Happened Here: Sinclair Lewis, White Nationalism, and the 2016 Presidential Election," by Anthony Di Renzo, Ithaca College
"Sinclair Lewis in Business and Politics: A Great Success," by Alexis Foran and Taneka Newman, Illinois State University
"Gideon Planish as Part of Lewis's Critique of Language," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"German Author Weighs in on It Can't Happen Here," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Mary Astor, Edith Cortright, and Dodsworth," Two Reviews of Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936, by Edward Sorel
Read the Fall 2017 SLS Newsletter
"Sinclair Lewis Conference 2017: Lewis in Business and Politics"
"Sinclair Lewis's Romantic Role-Playing: Reading the Lewis Correspondence to Marcella Powers (1939-1947)," by Constance M. Perry, St. Cloud State University
"Lewis's Problems Are Still Our Problems," A Review of Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy by Steven Michels," by Ralph Goldstein, California State University-Los Angeles
"'Publicist in Fiction': Sinclair Lewis's Use of Rhetorical and Newspaper Style Forms in Babbitt," by Narine Zakaryan and Ann Yeganyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia
"Roger Forseth, Acclaimed Lewis Scholar, Dies"
"The Many Lives of Floyd Dell," by Ted Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools (retired)
"It Can't Happen Here News"
Read the Spring 2017 SLS Newsletter
"Anthony Di Renzo to Be Keynote Speaker at Sinclair Lewis Conference 2017"
"Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Adaptation of It Can't Happen Here," by Ralph Goldstein, California State University-Los Angeles
"The Low-Down on Lewis," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Is Sinclair Lewis 'Not Much Read' Anymore?," by Ralph Goldstein, California State University-Los Angeles
"Lewis and Roth on American Dictators"
"Translation and Culture: Main Street Goes to China," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"It Can't Happen Here Staged Readings Sweep the Nation"
"The Runestone of Alexandria and Sinclair Lewis"
"What Were They Reading Then?: Calling Dr. Nietzsche: A Review of Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole, 1925," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Read the Fall 2016 SLS Newsletter
"Arrowsmith, A Synergy of Talents," by Jan Peter Verhave, Van Raalte Institute, Hope College
"Babbitt in Paperback, 1946," by Roger Lathbury, George Mason University
"Carl Van Vechten, Sinclair Lewis, and The Tattooed Countess," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson, 1923," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow, 1941," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: Moon-Calf by Floyd Dell, 1920," by Ted G. Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools
"Sinclair Lewis and the Novel"
Conference announcement: Sinclair Lewis Conference 2017: Lewis in Business and Politics
Read the Spring 2016 SLS Newsletter
"Death, Home, and House in 1920s Materialistic America," by Wisam Chaleila, KU Leuven, Belgium
"Sinclair Lewis Center Closes: Museum Artifacts Now Scattered throughout Town," by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
"George Babbitt and Almus Pickerbaugh as Representatives of Standardized Society," by Narine Zakaryan and Ann Yeganyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia
"Picturing the Story: A Review of Magazine Illustrators of Sinclair Lewis's Short Fiction: A Case History of Early 20th Century Popular Art," by Bob Ruggiero
Read the Fall 2015 SLS Newsletter
"Casting Newer Psychiatric Light on Sinclair Lewis," by Roy Lacoursiere
"The Babbitization of America: Rev. of The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi," by Dave Simpkins
"New Attention to Babbitt within Azar Nafisi's The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books," by Ralph Goldstein,
California State University, Los Angeles
"Elmer Gantry Joins the Gospel Choir: A Review of Elmer Gantry, the Musical," by Sean C. Denniston
"Technical Advisor for Elmer Gantry: Jim Grebe's Democracy's Defender: The Life of L. M. Birkhead," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Cass Timberlane and Dodsworth Cited as Good Marriage Movies," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"What Were They Reading Then?: Love in Greenwich Village by Floyd Dell," by Ted G. Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools
"American Dystopia: Review of Claire Sprague's It Can Happen Here: Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Philip Roth," by Joshua P. Preston, Baylor College
Read the Spring 2015 SLS Newsletter
"Sinclair Lewis's Former Greenwich Village Home Designated as Historic Literary Site," by Dave Simpkins and Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Remarks Given at the Lewis Medallion Ceremony, May 9, 2014, by Richard Lingeman
"Sinclair Lewis in New York City," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Pluralistic Narrative Strategies of 'Modern Realism' in Sinclair Lewis's Novels," by Haiou Yang, Huaihua University
Statement for the Sinclair Lewis Cultural Medallion Ceremony, by Anthony Di Renzo, Ithaca College
"Translating Lewis into English: Two Poems: 'The Student's Song' and 'To Twenty-One,'" by Joshua P. Preston, Baylor College
"Sinclair Lewis Locations in New York City"
"Why Read 'Moldy' Old Sinclair Lewis?," by Dennis Dalman, Newsleader, Sartell and St. Joseph, Minnesota
"'Peasant and Cockney': Mencken's Unknown Review of Main Street," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Read the Fall 2014 SLS Newsletter
"Modern Science and Biblical Literalism in Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry," by Albert H. Tricomi, Binghamton University
"A Book Club Visit to Main Street: One Reader's Unsettling Journey," by Mary-Margaret Simpson
"'Ein Schlager!': The Seralization of Sinclair Lewis's Novel Das ist bei uns Nicht Moglich in the New York Neue Volks-Zeitung (1937-38)," by Jorg Thunecke, Nottingham Trent University, and Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Lewis as the Man Who Knew Coolidge," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"It Can't Happen Here in Hollywood"
"The Fascinating Ruth Chatterton," by Susan O'Brien
"Lewis and Albert Payson Terhune Write Dad," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Read the Spring 2014 SLS Newsletter
"Mencken's Market Tip for Lewis," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Minnesota Association of Library Friends and Partners Dedicate Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home as Minnesota's Fourth American Library Association 'Literary Landmark'"
"Lewis Home Named Literary Landmark," by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
"What Were They Reading Then?: Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather"
"'This red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds': A Lost Epithet for Sinclair Lewis," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Read the Fall 2013 SLS Newsletter
"In Defense of Gopher Prairie: Main Street as a Critique of Urban Culture," by James Nixon, Glasgow University
"Red in Retrospect": A Review of Sinclair Lewis Remembered, edited by Gary Scharnhorst and Matthew Hofer, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"You Should Remember This": A Review of The Noir Forties: The American People from Victory to Cold War by Richard Lingeman, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Cass: Anatomy of a Moniker," by Charles Pankenier
"Twin Farms Today," by Susan O'Brien
"Sarcastic but Sympathetic, Babbitt is Premier Middle-Class Novel," by Mark Roth
"Barnaby Conrad, Lewis's Secretary, Dies at 90"
"Lewis's St. Augustine House for Sale"
Read the Spring 2013 SLS Newsletter
"Theater, Community, War, and Mr. Lewis," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Main Street to Eighth Street: Lewis House and St. Cloud’s South Side Neighborhood," by Alex L. Ames, St. Cloud State University Foundation
"Sugar House in Barnard to Be Tribute to Sinclair Lewis," by Katie Beth Ryan, Valley News (Vermont)
"Glenway Wescott: One of Lewis’s Contemporaries of the 1920s," by Steve Paragamian
"Main Street Original: Roberg Wins Original Copy of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street," by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
"Lewis and the Jewish Novel," Abstracts from the Sinclair Lewis Panel Presented at the American Literature Association Conference:
"Scientific Properties: Arrowsmith and the Ownership of Knowledge," by Brian Matzke, University of Michigan
“‘Think What the Baby Will See’: Feminine Desire and Futurity in Main Street,” by Corinne Martin, Ohio State University
“Use Her Eyes, Use Her Voice, Use Her Soul: Gendered Cons and the Economics of Evangelism in Elmer Gantry,” by Matthew Seybold, University of California-Irvine
Read the Fall 2012 SLS Newsletter
"Vermont, 1942: The Summer of Idealism: Dorothy Thompson, The Land Corps, and Its Legacy," by Tom Raynor
"The Federal Theater Project: It Did Happen Here," by William Severini Kowinski
"MacKinlay Kantor and Sinclair Lewis: Parallel Lives," by Ted Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools, Waterloo, Iowa
"Alumni House at St. Cloud State Renamed Lewis House"
"Dangerous Women": Rev. of Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power by Sally Hertog, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Dangerous Comments": Rev. of Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power by Sally Hertog, by Charles Pankenier
Read the Spring 2012 SLS Newsletter
"Lancelot Todd: A Case for Fictional Independence," by Samuel J. Rogal, Illinois Valley Community College
"'Another Perfect Day': Weather, Mood, and Landscape in Sinclair Lewis's Minnesota Diary," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"American Expatriates in Interwar Europe: Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth," by Bernhard Wenzl, Institute of Science and Technology, Vienna, Austria
"'What If?': The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth," rev. of Barnaby, Conrad, The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth by Ted Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools, Waterloo, Iowa
"An Appreciation of Free Air," by Levi Stahl, University of Chicago
Read the Fall 2011 SNS Newsletter
"Mark Nolan and Cass Timberlane," by Susan K. O'Brien
"Arrowsmith: The People Behind the Characters," by Jan Peter Verhave, Van Raalte Institute, Hope College
"Sinclair Lewis's Early Newspaper Career," by Gary H. Mayer, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Second Chances," rev. of The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth by Barnaby Conrad, by Gary H. Mayer, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 6
Read the Spring 2011 SLS Newsletter
"2010 Sinclair Lewis Conference A Great Success," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"'Carol Kennicott's Story: Main Street," by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel
"Dodsworth Perfomed in New York"
"Ida Compton Papers Archived," by Tom Steman, St. Cloud State University
"Lewis's Voice on CD," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"St. Cloud State University and Minnesota Reflections Website to Publish Collection of Letters by Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers," by Michael King, St. Cloud State University
"Reflections on Kingsblood," by D. J. Jones
"Barnaby Conrad Writes New Novel"
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 5
Read the Fall 2010 SNS Newsletter
"Sinclair Lewis Conference 2010: Celebrating Lewis in the 21st Century"
"'I really have no interest in the Indian': Sinclair Lewis Visits New Mexico in 1926," by Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico
"Sinclair Lewis Inducted into the Minnesota Writers Hall of Fame Class of 2009"
"Return to Zenith," reviews of Zenith Rising, by Michael Goodell
"Aimee Semple McPherson's Life Becomes a Musical"
"Lewis in Fiction Writers on Fiction Writing"
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 4
Read the Spring 2010 SLS Newsletter
"A Message for 'a Burning World': Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis, and It Can't Happen Here," by Tom Raynor
"The Man from Main Street: Bringing Sinclair Lewis into the 21st Century," by Thomas Steman, St. Cloud State University
"Another Take on Babbitt's Mysterious Inscription," by Michael McKay
"Upton Sinclair Rises Again!," rev. of U.S.! by Chris Bachelder, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 3
"What Were the Other Best-Sellers?," Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson (1922)
"The Opera of Elmer Gantry to Have Midwest Premiere"
Read the Fall 2009 SLN Newsletter
"Bowling Alone and Sinclair Lewis: A Teaching Experiment in a First-Year Program," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"Ghosts in the Palmer House?," by Rebecca Webb (reprinted from Senior Perspective)
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 2
"'Just suppose I encouraged some boy and he became a great artist': The Aspirations of Carol Kennicott and the Realizations of Lilian Steichen," by Ron McCutchan, Illinois State University
"Three-Volume Collection of Lewis Characters Published"
"When Main Street Comes to a Dead End," by Roger K. Miller
"Wells Lewis on YouTube," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
Read the Spring 2009 SLS Newsletter
"The Other Lewis: Fred Kermott Lewis," by Ted Fleener
"Impossible Ici: Raymond Queneau's Translation of It Can't Happen Here," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 1
"The Opera of Elmer Gantry"
"Lewis and the 150 Best Minnesota Books," by Patrick Coleman, Minnesota Historical Society
"It Can't Happen Here and A Cool Million," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Read the Fall 2008 SLN Newsletter
"Seven-Volume Collection of Lewis Short Stories Published," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University (includes interview with editor Samuel J. Rogal)
"The Cross, The Flag, and the Presidential Elections"
"Elmer Gantry Sings Again"
"St. Cloud State University Receives Gift of the Manuscripts for Sinclair Lewis's Play The Jayhawker"
"The Sinclair Lewis-Claude Washburn Friendship"
Read the Spring 2008 SLS Newsletter
"It Can't Happen Here Wins Libertarian Futurist Award"
"Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton Conference"
"A Citizen of the Mirage," by Sinclair Lewis, part 4
"'A novel filled with jackasses and jackals': Animal Imagery in Elmer Gantry," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"The Tragedy of Martin Arrowsmith: A Physician's Perspective," by Russell Gollard, M.D.
"Parts of Lewis's Library for Sale"
Read the Fall 2007 SLN Newsletter
"Claude Lewis and the Lewis Family Plot in St. Cloud," by Ted Fleener
"Narrative of the Life of Doremus Jessup: Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here and the Influence of Slave Narratives," by Edward Dauterich, Kent State University
"A Citizen of the Mirage," by Sinclair Lewis, part 3
"Louisiana Politics and It Can't Happen Here," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"A Study in the Synergy of Giftedness: Sinclair Lewis and the Influence of Medical Research on his Writing" by Michael E. Walters, Center for the Study of Humanities in the Schools
Read the Spring 2007 SLS Newsletter
"The American Village in a Global Setting Conference"
"Babbitt in the Advertising Age," by Quentin Martin, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
"Strangers: Sinclair Lewis Back on Broadway," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"A Citizen of the Mirage," by Sinclair Lewis, part 2
"A New Stage Production of Babbitt in Southern California," by Ralph Goldstein
"Babbitt Still Visible in the Big Picture: A Review of Victoria de Grazia's Irresistible Empire," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
Read the Fall 2006 SLS Newsletter
"Introducing Sinclair Lewis's Novels to Adults," by Patrick and Mary Killough
"PR Campaign Cycle Enforces Middle Class Message," by Laurie Fumea, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"A Citizen of the Mirage," by Sinclair Lewis, part 1., Introduction by Todd Stanley
"Sinclair Lewis Conference 2005: A Journal," by Jacqueline Koenig
Read the Spring 2006 SLS Newsletter
"Society Sponsors Third Lewis Conference in Sauk Centre," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Erumaa Gantorii," by Rusty Allred (discussion of Japanese translation of Elmer Gantry)
"The German Translator of It Can't Happen Here," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"The Lorinda Mystique," by Mary Krones, Illinois State University (about women in It Can't Happen Here)
"On a First Name Basis," by Michael Carroll Dooling (a friendship that Lewis shared with E. Robert Stevenson)
"Clearing the Smoke: Babbitt's 'Curious Inscription,'" by Michael Carroll Dooling
Read the Fall 2005 SLS Newsletter
"The Great American Jewish Nightmare," by Ralph Goldstein (about Philip Roth's The Plot Against America)
"Sinclair Lewis and Bret Easton Ellis, 'He-Man' to 'It-Boy': A Study of Commodity Culture through Generations," by Paul Vincent McInnes, University of Glasgow, Scotland
"'A Warrior of the Spirit': Dorothy Thompson, 1893-1961," by Thomas P. Raynor
"If George Babbitt Were a Woman," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University, Illinois State University (on the Emma McChesney series by Edna Ferber)
"One View of The God-Seeker," by Dave Rowe
"The Algonquin: Hotel for Artists and Writers"
"Meeting Sinclair Lewis: First Encounters and Initial Impressions, Part II," Compiled by Dana Cook
"Love on the Run: Balancing Marriage and Work," by Thomas P. Raynor (on the marriage of Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis)
Read the Spring 2005 SLS Newsletter
"Memories of the Sinclair Lewis Memorial Service," by John Kleinschmidt
"Fay Wray, Lewis's Theatrical Collaborator, Dies"
"Our Literary Diogenes": rev. of Sinclair Lewis as Reader and Critic by Martin Bucco, by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Abstracts from Sinclair Lewis at the ALA Conference:
"Sinclair Lewis and Americans Abroad," by Stephen L. Tanner, Brigham Young University
"From the Cultural Margin: Sinclair Lewis's Quest for Symbolic Goods," by Madeline Walker, University of Victoria, Canada
"Japanese Adventures with Sinclair Lewis," by Rusty Allred
"Babbitt's Mysterious Inscription," by Ingrid Wilson
"Lewis and the Literary Immortality Polls of 1936 and 1948," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Meeting Sinclair Lewis: First Encounters and Initial Impressions, Part I" Compiled by Dana Cook
Read the Fall 2004 SNS Newsletter
"Grant Wood's Main Street"
"The Plight of 'Nhu-Yok' and 'Wash-Yn-Tun': Sinclair Lewis and John Ames Mitchell," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"The Fountain of Youth: Scandal and Black Oxen" by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Teaching Kingsblood Royal: Student Responses to Issues of Race" by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Student Responses:
"Blackmailed by Love" by Brianne Marshall
"Vestal's Diary" by Monica Nohren
"Confrontation" by Christy Turner
"Timeline of Race and Literature in America" by Karen Chachere
Read the Spring 2004 SNS Newsletter
"Main Street at the Great American History Theatre in St. Paul: A Review," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"Main Street Revisited," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on Sinclair Lewis: Glimpses Too Brief," by Rodger L. Tarr, Illinois State University
"The Lewis-Hemingway Connection-Again," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"More on the Thoreau Connection," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"Main Street Invites Interpretations: Theater Review," by Carolyn Petrie, St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Lewis as Pornography," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
Read the Fall 2003 SNS Newsletter
"Interview with Richard Lingeman," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Lewis Catches Flivver Fever: Author Enjoyed the Early Motoring Days," by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
"Arrowsmith in Japanese," by Rusty Allred
"Lewis, London-and Hemingway?," by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
"Edith Wharton in Sinclair Lewis," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"The Art of the Literary Feud," rev. of Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels-From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe by Anthony Arthur; by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Hemingway Read Some Lewis," by Hilary Justice, Illinois State University
"Enlightened on Lewis," by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
Read the Spring 2003 SNS Newsletter
"Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, and the 'Bo-Teaser,'" by Jerry Leath Mills, Colby-Sawyer College
"My Love Affair with Sinclair Lewis," by Lisa Napoli
"Roundup of Reviews of Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street, Part II"
"Mr. Hardy and Mr. Lewis," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"Literary Style in Lingeman's Lewis Biography, Rebel from Main Street," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"A Model for Elmer Gantry?: New Biography of William Stidger is Published"
Read the Fall 2002 SNS Newsletter
"Summaries of Reviews of Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman"
"'He Really Cared': A Review of Rebel from Main Street," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Teaching Main Street: What Happens after the Novel Ends?," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"It Can't Happen Here as a Poem," by Pamela Troy (with permission from the Democratic Underground)
Elmer Gantry 75th Anniversary Centerfold
Read the Spring 2002 SNS Newsletter
"The Education of the Eye," Review of Minnesota Diary, 1942-1946 by Sinclair Lewis, ed. by George Killough, by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"Two Notes to a Low, Dishonest Decade: Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here and Saul Bellow's 'The Hell It Can't,'" by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"Poe in Lewis," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"Standardization and Conformity: A Critical Study of Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt," by Lucy Zhang, Yangzhou University, China
"The Mice: Lewis Story Becomes a Musical"
"The Woolworth Connection: Sinclair Lewis, C.S. Lewis, and John Updike," by Kathryn Lindskoog
"Lewis's Grandson Writes a Novel"
Read the Fall 2001 SNS Newsletter
"Delicate Fellows and Fugitives from Rage," by Ralph Goldstein, California State University-Los Angeles
"Writers at Work: A Visit with Barnaby Conrad," by Brooke Hessler, Texas Christian University
"Huh: Knowledge, Truth, and Reading against the Text in Arrowsmith," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Minnesota Diary is Published"
"Modern Library to Reprint Kingsblood Royal"
"Sinclair Lewis and the Book," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"Lewis and Claude Washburn," by John L. Washburn
"Sketching Utopia: Three Reviews" by Peter Paulino, Richard Lingeman, and Clare Eby
Read the Spring 2001 SNS Newsletter
"Successful Sinclair Lewis Conference 2000"
"Sinclair Lewis Conference 2000: A Journal," by Jacqueline Koenig
"Pickerbaugh Was a Genius!," by Marcia K. Buchs, Illinois State University
"Teaching Arrowsmith" by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Sherlock Holmes Meets Sinclair Lewis," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"Sinclair Takes Tea," by Nancy Potter Woodson
"Arrowsmith and Modern Medicine"
"Sinclair Lewis and George Seldes," by Mitch Freedman
"Sinclair Lewis Sings"
Read the Fall 2000 SNS Newsletter
"Making the World a Better Place: Lewis's Advice to a Teacher"
"Fascists in America: Gender and Dystopia in It Can't Happen Here and The Handmaid's Tale," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"The Nation Reprints Lewis Essays"
"Lewis Session at ALA Focuses on Middle-Class Life, Awards, and Bibliography"
Abstracts of the Sinclair Lewis Panel at 2000 ALA
"'Snoway Talkcher Father': The Construction of the Suburban Family in Babbitt," by M. Ellen Dupree, University of Nevada-Reno
"A Plea for a Bibliography of Sinclair Lewis," by James Lorson, Lorson's Books and Prints
"Delicate Fellows and Fugitives from Rage: The American Nobel Laureate," by Ralph Goldstein
Read the Spring 2000 SNS Newsletter
"Trouble on Main Street" by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"The Road to Understanding and Reform in Kingsblood Royal," by Robert Sheckler
"Sinclair Lewis and Lewis Carroll," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"Robert Ingersoll and Sinclair Lewis"
Read the Fall 1999 SNS Newsletter
"Sinclair Lewis's The Trail of the Hawk: The Western Looks to the Future," by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
"Collecting Sinclair Lewis," by Stephen R. Pastore
"Sinclair Lewis Days; A Celebration with Character," by Cari Coleman, Illinois State University
"Sinclair Lewis and Diane of the Green Van," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"C-Span Visits Sauk Centre"
"Lewis and The Golden Violet"
Read the Spring 1999 SNS ewsletter
"Sinclair Lewis—Minnesota Rustic," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"Backwoods Isolationism versus Medical Imperialism in Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith," by Stephanie Browner, Berea College
"The Anniversary Editions of Sinclair Lewis Novels," by Jeffrey M. Halperin
"Sinclair Lewis on Western Writers," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"Teaching Babbitt," by Ralph Goldstein
"On the Road to Babbitt," Review of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, edited by Anthony Di Renzo; by Clare Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford
"Uncle Hal: Isabel Lewis Agrell's Sinclair Lewis Remembered," rev. by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"Sinclair Lewis and Travels with Charley," by Jacqueline Koenig
Abstracts of Sinclair Lewis Panel at 1998 ALA
"Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt against the Suburb," by Catherine Jurca, California Institute of Technology
"The Roots of Dodsworth: Lewis and Nineteenth-Century American Literature," by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico, University of New Mexico
"Burkeian Piety at Work: Symbolic Labor in Sinclair Lewis's Early Business Stories," by H. Brooke Hessler, Texas Christian University
Read the SLN Fall 1998 Newsletter
"Chicagoland Theatre Presents Musical of Lewis's Elmer Gantry," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Devoto's Mountain Time: Arrowsmith after Arrowsmith," by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
"A Guide to Films Based on the Works of Sinclair Lewis," by Stephen E. Pastore
"Robert Bly Urges 'Writing with Soul,'" by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
Read the SLN Spring 1998 Newsletter
"Lifting the Schorer Curse: The Burden of a Biography," by Richard Lingeman
"Conference Celebrates Anniversaries of Lewis's Babbitt, Kingsblood Royal," by David Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
"Society and Foundation Join to Sponsor Successful Sinclair Lewis Conference," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"The Reconstruction of Minnesota's Main Street," by Jacqueline Koenig
"A Diary of the Sinclair Lewis Conference," by Jacqueline Koenig
"A Bed and Breakfast at Twin Farms," by Michael Frank
"Vermont's Award-Winning Twin Farms," by Jerry Weil
"Lewis's Early Fiction Still Resonates Today," rev. of If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair Lewis, ed. by Anthony Di Renzo, by Linda Laird Giedl
"At Last," rev. of Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography, A Collector's and Scholar's Guide to Identification by Stephen R. Pastore, by Daniel Chabris
"Even at 70, Elmer Gantry is Wickedly Funny: A Satirical Look at Evangelism Lewis-Style," by Roger K. Miller
"Sauk Centre Welcomes Lewis's Granddaughter," by Roberta Olson
"Writer's Hometown Showers Granddaughter Lesley Lewis with Celebrity Status," by Kris Bergquist
"Nobel Love Letters," by Kevin Duchschere
"Sinclair Lewis Essay Winners Awarded Scholarships," includes essays by Rebecca Ann Stepan (Grand Prize winner) and Sabrina Marthaler (1st Runner Up)
Abstracts: From Papers Presented at the Sinclair Lewis Conference:
"Babbitt: The Literary Dimension," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"A Manless Novel in a Manly Time," by Todd Michael Stanley
"Sinclair Lewis on the Nineties," by Nancy Bunge, Michigan State University
"Neil Kingsblood: The Not so Tragic Mulatto," by Jean Mullin Yonke
"Literary and Racial Tensions in Kingsblood Royal," by M. Ellen DuPree, University of Nevada, Reno
"Vision, Progress, and Regular Guys: George F. Babbitt's Rhetorical Ideals," by Brooke Hessler, Texas Christian University
"Jazzing Up American History: Using Babbitt and Elmer Gantry to Teach the History of the 1920s," by Jane Lamm Carroll, College of St. Catherine
"It Can't Happen Here: The Liberal Imagination in an 'Age of Ideology,'" by Jonathan Veitch, New School for Social Research
"Iron George: Myths of Masculinity in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Mantrap," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"From Stereotyping to Social Critique: Babbitt's Italian Fortune During the Fascist Years," by Valerio C. Ferme, University of California, Berkeley
"Deconstructing Culture in Kingsblood Royal," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Babbitt: The Middle-Class Malcontent," by Catherine Jurca, California Institute of Technology
"Heinrich Mann's Der Untertan: 'A German Main Street' and More," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Read the Fall 1997 SNS Newsletter
"Mantrap, The Movie," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"From the Lewis Archives II," by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"Wells Lewis," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Love Letters from a Wordsmith," by Rene Kaluza
"Former US Army Sergeant Shares a Lewis Memory," by Erin Hollis, Illinois State University
"A Tempest in a Teapot over Tennis as I Play It," by Stephen R. Pastore
"Major New Study of the 1920s Novels: Review of The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930, by James M. Hutchisson" rev. by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"Joyce Lyng Tends the Sinclair Lewis Memory," by Jeanne Olson
"Minneapolis Bookseller, Collector Spent Afternoon with Lewis," by Anne Robinson
"March 8, 1925: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis," by Henry Logan Stuart
Read the SLN Fall 1996 Newsletter
"Reflections on Sauk Centre: Visiting Lewis's Hometown," by Jacqueline Koenig
"Revisiting Main Street: Review of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, ed. with a biographical explanation and explanatory notes by Martin Bucco" by James M. Hutchinsson, The Citadel
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Getting Kingsblood Royal," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Dodsworth, the Musical, Reviewed," by Peter Filichia
"How One Little Town Changed the Whole American Landscape: 75 Years after Main Street, Novel Still Holds up a Mirror," Roger K. Miller
"Minnesota Historical Society Acquires Lewis Letters"
Read the Spring 1996 SNS Newsletter
Abstracts from Papers Presented at the 1995 American Literature Association Conference:
"Carol Kennicott's Curious Conversion: A Turnerian Reading of Main Street," by Jon W. Brooks, Okaloosa-Walton Community College
"Tropic of Zenith: Babbitt as Field Study," by David J. Knauer, Purdue University
"Dodsworth, Character Designs, and Frank Lloyd Wright," by Jay Williams, University of Chicago
"Elmer Gantry, the Musical, Returns"
"'Carol's Revolution': A Rejoinder," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"Sauk Centre Celebrates 75th Anniversary of Main Street"
"Young Man with a Problem," rev. of They Still Say No, by Wells Lewis, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
St. Cloud Times Celebrates Lewis in Connection with the 75th Anniversary of the Publication of Main Street"
"Book Shows Conflict Between Individual, Community: enduring theme is the courtship of woman and her new town," by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"Don't Look Down on Anyone: Lewis's book poked fun at those with small-minded values," by Lawrence Ianni, University of Minnesota-Duluth
"For Today's Students, Book Still Raises Critical Questions," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
People, Towns Have Flaws, Retain Hope: Book's main character returns to town aware of her limits," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
Read the Fall 1995 SLS Newsletter
"Richard Lingeman and the New Sinclair Lewis Biography," an interview of Richard Lingeman, by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"A Revolution of One," rev. of The Job, by Sinclair Lewis; by Clare Virginia Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford
"From the Lewis Archives I," by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"Carol's Revolution," Review of Main Street: The Revolt of Carol Kennicott, by Martin Bucco; by Caren J. Town, Georgia Southern University
"Harvey Taylor and Jack London's Purchase of Sinclair Lewis's Plots: A Posthumous Saga," by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin, University of Ottawa
Read the Spring 1995 SNS Newsletter
Abstracts from Papers Presented at the 1994 American Literature Association Conference:
"Paul De Kruif and the Composition of Arrowsmith," by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel
"The Mine of Lost Souls: Generational History in Sinclair Lewis's Free Air and Douglas Coupland's Shampoo Planet," by Edward Watts, Michigan State University
"Sinclair Lewis and William Faulkner: Quest for Integrity," by Dmitry Urnov, Adelphi University, and Julia Palievsky, Nassau Community College (SUNY)
"Edith Wharton and Grace Lewis," by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel
"It Can't Happen Here, Again, Review of It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, Introduction by Perry Meisel by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Intruder Heroines: Carol Kennicott and Ann Vickers," Review of Child Brides and Intruders, by Carol Wershoven" by Francesca Sawaya, Illinois State University
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Main Street Still Mainly Main Street," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
Read the Fall 1994 SNS Newsletter
Abstracts from Papers Presented at the Symposium on American Realism and Naturalism:
"'A Scarlet Tanager on an Ice-Floe': Women, Men, and History on Main Street," by Caren J. Town, Georgia Southern University
"American Voices in Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Boundary Ambiguity and Abortion: Women's Choices in Sinclair Lewis's Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: From Resentment to Recognition: Babbitt in the Classroom," by Clare Virginia Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford
"The Life of Babbitt," Review of Babbitt: An American Life, by Glen A. Love; by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel
Read the Spring 1994 SNS Newsletter
Abstracts from Papers Presented at the 1993 American Literature Association Conference:
"Lewis on Authorship," by Martin Bucco, Colorado State University
"'All of Us Americans at 46': The Making of Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt," by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel
"Babbitt as Veblenian Critique of Manliness," by Clare Eby, University of Connecticut-Hartford
"Sinclair Lewis's 'Minnesota Diary' and His Devotion to Thoreau," by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica
"A Romance of Manners and Class," rev. of Free Air, by Sinclair Lewis, edited by Robert E. Fleming, by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"The Reviewers Reviewed: Part II," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"An American Classic Returns," by David Ramsey
Read the Fall 1993 SNS Newsletter
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Using Students as Experts," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"The Library of America Lewis: The Reviewers Reviewed," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
"Three Lewis Letters," by R. R. Centing, Ohio State University Libraries
"Bibliographical Notes," by Robert E. Fleming, University of New Mexico
Read the SLN Spring 1993 Newsletter
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here in the Classroom (Or Can It?)," by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University
" Canonized - At Last," Review of Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey; by Roger Forseth, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"New Production of It Can't Happen Here Opens in San Francisco"
"The Sinclair Lewis Society"
"Twayne to Publish Critical Volumes on Lewis"
Read the SLN Fall 1992 Newsletter