Main Street Resources
WEBSITES
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In an ironic twist of fate, some people decided to start a club based around Sinclair Lewis. Let's hope they're not like the Boosters' Club or Athletic Club that we find in Babbitt.
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As the warning says, make sure you know your country's copyright laws before deciding which books to download. Grrrrr.
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Check out this site for a great bibliography and some solid online resources related to Sinclair Lewis.
MOVIE OR TV PRODUCTIONS
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Released only three years after Lewis' book, this film is the only close adaptation made to date.
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
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In this article, author and critic Gore Vidal discusses why it's a shame that people don't read Sinclair Lewis the way they used to.
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In the excerpt, The Atlantic gives us a taste of the long Sinclair Lewis biography written by Mark Schorer. The article starts with a funny story about how Lewis thought a prank was being played on him when he first learned that he had won the Novel Prize.
AUDIO
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Got a spare eighteen and a half hours? Great, so sit back and throw on this recording on Main Street.
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Travel back in time to an age when the radio drama was one of the most dominant forms of media.
IMAGES
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Some people felt like Lewis was too judgmental of a person—and photos like this give you a good sense of why.
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Here's a good look at what Lewis would have looked like when he wrote Main Street.
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The title says it all. This photo makes Lewis look like he's about to eat a kitten.