The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter is published
twice a year with help from the Publications Unit of the English
Department at Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4240.
Each issue of the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter covers
many topics including scholarly articles on Lewis's novels
and short stories, information on how to teach Lewis's works,
and interviews with Lewis scholars, including most recently
Richard Lingeman, author of the new biography Sinclair
Lewis: Rebel From Main Street.
Departments included in most issues include Sinclair Lewis
Notes, Sauk Centre News, Web Notes, and Collector's Corner.
There are so many interesting articles, we cannot begin to
list them all. But below is a listing of some highlights from
the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter. Please visit
our membership
page if you are interested in a subscription, or see
our order form
if you want particular issues.
Spring 2006 (14.2)
“Louisiana Politics and It Can’t Here,” by Frederick Betz
“Introducing Sinclair Lewis's Novels to Adults” by Patrick and Mary Killough
“PR Campaign Cycle Enforces Middle Class Message” by Laurie Fumea
“A Citizen of the Mirage” by Sinclair Lewis, part 1. Introduction by Todd Stanley
“Sinclair Lewis Conference 2005: A Journal,” by Jacqueline Koenig
Fall 2005 (14.1)
“Society Sponsors Third Lewis Conference in Sauk Centre" by Robert L. McLaughlin
“Erumaa Gantorii” by Rusty Allred (discussion of Japanese translation of Elmer Gantry)
“The German Translator of It Can’t Happen Here” by Frederick Betz
“The Lorinda Mystique” by Mary Krones (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
Spring 2005 (13.2)
“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
“‘A Warrior of the Spirit’: Dorothy Thompson, 1893-1961” by Thomas P. Raynor
“If George Babbitt Were a Woman” by Sally E. Parry (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)
Fall 2004 (13.1)
“Memories of the Sinclair Lewis Memorial Service” by John Kleinschmidt”
“Fay Wray, Lewis’s Theatrical Collaborator, Dies”
“Our Literary Diogenes”: Review of Sinclair Lewis as Reader and Critic by Martin Bucco; by Frederick Betz
Sinclair Lewis at the ALA Conference: Abstracts of “Sinclair Lewis and Americans Abroad” by Stephen L. Tanner and “From the Cultural Margin: Sinclair Lewis’s Quest for Symbolic Goods” by Madeline Walker
“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
“Meeting Sinclair Lewis: First Encounters and Initial Impressions, Part I” Compiled by Dana Cook
Spring 2004 (12.2)
“Grant Wood’s Main Street”
“The Plight of ‘Nhu-Yok’ and ‘Wash-Yn-Tun’: Sinclair Lewis and John Ames Mitchell” by Martin Bucco
“The Fountain of Youth: Scandal and Black Oxen” by Sally E. Parry
“Teaching Kingsblood Royal: Student Responses to Issues of Race” by Sally E. Parry
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
Fall 2003 (12.1)
“Main Street at the Great American History Theatre in St. Paul: A Review” by George Killough” “Main Street Revisited” by Robert L. McLaughlin
“Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on Sinclair Lewis: Glimpses Too Brief” by Rodger L. Tarr
“The Lewis-Hemingway Connection—Again” by Martin Bucco
“More on the Thoreau Connection” by George Killough
“Main Street Invites Interpretations: Theater Review” by Carolyn Petrie, St. Paul Pioneer Press
“Lewis as Pornography” by Sally E. Parry
Spring 2003 (11.2)
“Interview with Richard Lingeman” by Sally E. Parry
“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
“Edith Wharton in Sinclair Lewis” by Martin Bucco
“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 “Hemingway Read Some Lewis” by Hilary Justice
“Englightened on Lewis” by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
Fall
2002 (11.1)
"Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, and the 'Bo-Teaser'"
by Jerry Leath Mills
"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
"Literary Style in Lingeman's Lewis Biography, Rebel
from Main Street" by Frederick Betz
"A Model for Elmer Gantry?: New Biography of William
Stidger is Published
Spring
2002 (10. 2)
"Summaries of Reviews of Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from
Main Street"
"'He Really Cared': A Review of Rebel from Main Street"
by Sally E. Parry
"Teaching Main Street: What Happens after the
Novel Ends?" by Sally E. Parry
"It Can't Happen Here as a Poem" by Pamela
Troy (with permission from the Democratic Underground)
Elmer Gantry 75th Anniversary Centerfold
Fall
2001 (10.1)
"The Education of the Eye," Review of
Minnesota Diary, 1942-1946 by Sinclair Lewis, edited
by George Killough; by Roger Forseth
"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
"Poe in Lewis" by Martin Bucco
"Standardization and Conformity: A Critical Study of
Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt" by Lucy Zhang
"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"
Spring
2001 (9.2)
"Delicate Fellows and Fugitives from Rage" by Ralph
Goldstein
"Writers at Work: A Visit with Barnaby Conrad" by
Brooke Hessler
"Huh: Knowledge, Truth, and Reading against the Text
in Arrowsmith" by Robert L. McLaughlin
"Minnesota Diary is Published"
"Modern Library to Reprint Kingsblood Royal"
"Sinclair Lewis and the Book" by Martin Bucco
"Lewis and Claude Washburn" by John L. Washburn
"Sketching Utopia: Three Reviews" by Peter
Paulino, Richard Lingeman, and Clare Eby
Fall
2000 (9.1)
"Successful Sinclair Lewis Conference 2000"
"Sinclair Lewis Conference 2000: A Journal" by Jacqueline
Koenig
"Pickerbaugh Was a Genius!" by Marcia K. Buchs
"Teaching Arrowsmith" by Sally E. Parry
"Sherlock Holmes Meets Sinclair Lewis" by Martin
Bucco
"Sinclair Takes Tea" by Nancy Potter Woodson
"Arrowsmith and Modern Medicine"
"Sinclair Lewis and George Seldes" by Mitch Freedman
Spring
2000 (8.2)
"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
"The Nation Reprints Lewis Essays"
Fall
1999 (8.1)
"Trouble on Main Street" by Sally E. Parry
"The Road to Understanding and Reform in Kingsblood
Royal" by Robert Sheckler
"Sinclair Lewis and Lewis Carroll" by Martin Bucco
"Robert Ingersoll and Sinclair Lewis"
Spring
1999 (7.2)
"Sinclair Lewis's The Trail of the Hawk: The Western
Looks to the Future" by Robert E. Fleming
"Collecting Sinclair Lewis" by Stephen R. Pastore
"Sinclair Lewis Days; A Celebration with Character"
by Cari Coleman
"Sinclair Lewis and Diane of the Green Van"
by Martin Bucco
"C-Span Visits Sauk Centre"
"Lewis and The Golden Violet"
Fall
1998 (7.1)
"Sinclair Lewis — Minnesota Rustic" by George
Killough
"Backwoods Isolationism versus Medical Imperialism in
Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith" by Stephanie Browner
"The Anniversary Editions of Sinclair Lewis Novels"
by Jeffrey M. Halperin
"Sinclair Lewis on Western Writers" by Martin Bucco
"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
"Uncle Hal: Isabel Lewis Agrell's Sinclair Lewis Remembered,"
Review by George Killough
"Sinclair Lewis and Travels with Charley"
by Jacqueline Koenig
Spring
1998 (6.2)
"Chicagoland Theatre Presents Musical of Lewis's Elmer
Gantry" by Robert L. McLaughlin
"Devoto's Mountain Time: Arrowsmith after Arrowsmith"
by Robert E. Fleming
"A Guide to Films Based on the Works of Sinclair Lewis"
by Stephen E. Pastore
"Robert Bly Urges 'Writing with Soul'" by David
Simpkins
Fall
1997 (6.1)
"Lifting the Schorer Curse: The Burden of a Biography"
by Richard Lingeman
"Conference Celebrates Anniversaries of Lewis's Babbitt,
Kingsblood Royal" by David Simpkins
"Society and Foundation Join to Sponser Successful Sinclair
Lewis Conference" by Sally E. Parry
"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
"Sauk Centre Welcomes Lewis's Granddaughter" by
Roberta Olson
"Sinclair Lewis Essay Winners Awarded Scholarships"
Abstracts: From Papers Presented at the Sinclair Lewis Conference
"Babbitt; The Literary Dimension" by Martin
Bucco
"A Manless Novel in a Manly Time" by Todd Michael
Stanley
"Sinclair Lewis on the Nineties" by Nancy Bunge
"Neil Kingsblood: The Not so Tragic Mulatto" by
Jean Mullin Yonke
"Literary and Racial Tensions in Kingsblood Royal"
by M. Ellen DuPree
"Vision, Progress, and Regular Guys: George F. Babbitt's
Rhetorical Ideals" by Brooke Hessler
"Jazzing Up American History: Using Babbitt and
Elmer Gantry to Teach the History of the 1920s"
by Jane Lamm Carroll
"It Can't Happen Here: The Liberal Imagination
in an 'Age of Ideology'" by Jonathan Veitch
"Iron George: Myths of Masculinity in Sinclair Lewis's
Babbitt and Mantrap" by Sally E. Parry
"From Stereotyping to Social Critique: Babbitt's
Italian Fortune During the Fascist Years" by Valerio
C. Ferme
"Deconstructing Culture in Kingsblood Royal"
by Robert L. McLaughlin
"Babbitt: The Middle-Class Malcontent" by
Catherine Jurca
"Heinrich Mann's Der Untertan: 'A German Main Street'
and More" by Frederick Betz
Spring
1997 (5.2)
"Mantrap, The Movie" by Sally E. Parry
"From the Lewis Archives II" by Roger Forseth
"Wells Lewis" by Sally E. Parry
"Love Letters from a Wordsmith" by Rene Kaluza
"Former US Army Sergeant Shares a Lewis Memory"
by Erin Hollis
Fall
1996 (5.1)
"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, by James M. Hutchisson"
by George Killough
"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
Spring
1996 (4.2)
"Reflections on Sauk Centre: Visiting Lewis's Hometown"
by Jacqueline Koenig
"Revisiting Main Street," Review of Main
Street by Sinclair Lewis, edited wit a biographical explanation
and explanatory notes by Martin Bucco; by James M. Hutchinsson
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Getting Kingsblood Royal"
by Robert L. McLaughlin
"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"
Fall
1995 (4.1)
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
"Tropic of Zenith: Babbitt as Field Study" by
David J. Knauer
"'Carol's Revolution': A Rejoinder" by Martin Bucco
"Dodsworth, Character Designs, and Frank Lloyd Wright"
by Jay Williams
"Sauk Centre Celebrates 75th Anniversary of Main Street"
"Elmer Gantry, the Musical, Returns"
Spring
1995 (3.2)
"Richard Lingeman and the New Sinclair Lewis Biography,"
an interview
"A Revolution of One," Review of The Job,
by Sinclair Lewis; by Clare Virginia Eby
"From the Lewis Archives I" by Roger Forseth
"Carol's Revolution," Review of Main Street:
The Revolt of Carol Kennicott, by Martin Bucco; by Caren
J. Town
"Harvey Taylor and Jack London's Purchase of Sinclair
Lewis's Plots: A Posthumous Saga" by Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
Fall
1994 (3.1)
"Edith Wharton and Grace Lewis" by James M. Hutchisson
"It Can't Happen Here, Again," Review of
It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, Introduction
by Perry Meisel; by Robert L. McLaughlin
"Intruder Heroines: Carol Kennicott and Ann Vickers,"
Review of Child Brides and Intruders, by Carol Wershoven;
by Francesca Sawaya
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Main Street Still Mainly
Main Street" by George Killough
Abstracts: From Papers Presented at the 1994 American Literature
Association Conference
"Paul De Kruif and the Composition of Arrowsmith"
by James M. Hutchisson
"The Mine of Lost Souls: Generational History in Sinclair
Lewis's Free Air and Douglas Coupland's Shampoo
Planet" by Edward Watts
"Sinclair Lewis and William Faulkner: Quest for Integrity"
by Dmitry and Julia Palievsky
Spring
1994 (2.2)
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
"American Voices in Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen
Here" by Robert L. McLaughlin
"Boundary Ambiguity and Abortion: Women's Choices in
Sinclair Lewis's Ann Vickers and Kingsblood Royal"
by Sally E. Parry
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: From Resentment to Recognition:
Babbitt in the Classroom" by Clare Virginia Eby
"The Life of Babbitt," Review of Babbitt: An
American Life, by Glen A. Love; by James M. Hutchisson
Fall
1993 (2.1)
Abstracts: From papers Presented at the 1993 American Literature
Association Conference
"Lewis on Authorship" by Martin Bucco
"'All of Us Americans at 46': The Making of Sinclair
Lewis's Babbitt: by James M. Hutchisson
"Babbitt as Veblenian Critique of Manliness"
by Clare Eby
"Sinclair Lewis's 'Minnesota Diary' and His Devotion
to Thoreau" by George Killough
"A Romance Of Manners and Class," Review of Free
Air, by Sinclair Lewis, edited by Robert E. Fleming; by
Roger Forseth
"The Reviewers Reviewed: Part II" by Robert L. McLaughlin
"An American Classic Returns" by David Ramsey
Spring
1993 (1.2)
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: Using Students as Experts"
by Sally E. Parry
"The Library of America Lewis: The Reviewers Reviewed"
by Robert L. McLaughlin
"Three Lewis Letters" by R. R. Centing
"Bibliographical Notes" by Robert E. Fleming
Fall
1992 (1.1)
"Teaching Sinclair Lewis: It Can't Happen Here
in the Classroom (Or Can It?)" by Robert L. McLaughlin
" Canonized — At Last," Review of Main Street
and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey; by Roger Forseth
"New Production of It Can't Happen Here Opens
in San Francisco"
"The Sinclair Lewis Society"
"Twayne to Publish Critical Volumes on Lewis"
