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 includes scholarly articles on Lewis's novels and short stories, as well current mentions of Lewis in news and scholarship, information on Sauk Centre, news for book collectors, and calls for papers. There are occasional columns on how to teach Lewis's works as well as interviews with Lewis scholars.
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. Below is a listing of 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.
"Lancelot Todd: A Case for Fictional Independence," by Samuel J. Rogal, Illinois Valley Community College
"'Another Perfect Day': Weather, Modd, 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 The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth by Barnaby Conrad,
by Ted Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools, Waterloo, Iowa
"An Appreciation of Free Air," by Levi Stahl, University of Chicago
"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 (Council Oak, 2010),
by Gary H. Mayer, Stephen F. Austin State University
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 6
"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
"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
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"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 (Bloomsbury, 2006), 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"
"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
"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 at Carbondale
"Habeas Corpus," by Sinclair Lewis, part 1
"The Opera of Elmer Gantry"
"Lewis and the 150 Best Minnesota Books," by Patrick Coleman
"It Can't Happen Here and A Cool Million," by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University
"Seven-Volume Collection of Lewis Short Stories Published," by Sally E. Parry (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"
"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 at Carbondale
"The Tragedy of Martin Arrowsmith: A Physician's Perspective," by Russell Gollard, M.D.
"Parts of Lewis's Library for Sale"
"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 at Carbondale
"A Study in the Synergy of Giftedness: Sinclair Lewis and the Influence of Medical Research on his Writing" by Michael E. Walters
"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
"Louisiana Politics and It Can't Happen Here," by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
"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
"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 at 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
"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 at Carbondale
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, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
"Meeting Sinclair Lewis: First Encounters and Initial Impressions, Part I" Compiled by Dana Cook
"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
"Englightened on Lewis," by Dave Simpkins, Sauk Centre Herald
"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 Sponser 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 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), 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 (Yale Books, 1997), 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, The 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 at Carbondale
"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"
"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, 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
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
"Sinclair Lewis and William Faulkner: Quest for Integrity," by Dmitry and Julia Palievsky
