Main Street Resources
WEBSITES
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.
As the warning says, make sure you know your country's copyright laws before deciding which books to download. Grrrrr.
Check out this site for a great bibliography and some solid online resources related to Sinclair Lewis.
MOVIE OR TV PRODUCTIONS
Released only three years after Lewis' book, this film is the only close adaptation made to date.
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
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.
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
Got a spare eighteen and a half hours? Great, so sit back and throw on this recording on Main Street.
Travel back in time to an age when the radio drama was one of the most dominant forms of media.
IMAGES
Some people felt like Lewis was too judgmental of a person—and photos like this give you a good sense of why.
Here's a good look at what Lewis would have looked like when he wrote Main Street.
The title says it all. This photo makes Lewis look like he's about to eat a kitten.