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The Sinclair Lewis Library

The Sinclair Lewis Library

Written by: Sinclair Lewis
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Welcome to The Sinclair Lewis Library - a dignified little institution devoted to the careful airing of American ambition, middle-class certainty, and the curious art of taking oneself very seriously. Here, the streets are tidy, the rhetoric is polished, and the human comedy is forever peeking through the curtains. Each episode presents a full reading from Lewis’s novels, where boosters boast, reformers reform, and respectable citizens discover (sometimes to their alarm) that respectability can be the strangest costume of all.

Settle in as boardrooms, parlors, laboratories, and Main Streets come briskly to life. Whether you arrive as a loyal Babbitt or a secret rebel, this podcast offers a front-row seat to satire that still feels uncomfortably familiar. Consider it your weekly civic meeting, only far more honest and considerably better read.Public domain Hourly
Episodes
  • The Willow Walk Section 5

    The Willow Walk Section 5
    Sep 27 2026
    In which a man named John Holt confronts the president of a bank with the strange and troubling claim that he is actually Jasper Holt, a man who has disappeared under suspicions of theft, only to meet disbelief and gentle dismissal. With no proof to support his tale, John, exhausted and desperate, seeks refuge in a jail, yet finds himself turned away and encouraged instead to find honest work.
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    7 mins
  • The Willow Walk Section 4

    The Willow Walk Section 4
    Sep 26 2026
    In which the bleak landscape of autumn mirrors the troubled mind of John Holt, a man burdened by guilt and consumed by mystical pursuits and restless contemplation. Haunted by his past and isolated from his community, he confronts his own unraveling sanity and the stark reality of loss and desperation.
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    12 mins
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