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.
For more information, visit The Sinclair Lewis Society website.
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 8, No. 1
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“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”
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 2
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“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“
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 1
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“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
“Burkeian Piety at Work: Symbolic Labor in Sinclair Lewis’s Early Business Stories,” by H. Brooke Hessler, Texas Christian University
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 2
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“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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 1
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“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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2
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“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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1
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“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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2
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“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”
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1
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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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2
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“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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1
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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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2
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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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1
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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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2
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“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
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The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1
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“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”