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The Sinclair Lewis Library

The Sinclair Lewis Library

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
Episodes
  • Elmer Gantry Chapter 4

    Elmer Gantry Chapter 4
    Mar 21 2026
    In which Elmer Gantry is gently nudged by various figures—from college presidents to family—to consider the ministry as a path to social prestige and personal influence, though he grapples with the elusive spiritual "Call" that is said to legitimise such a vocation. Meanwhile, the surrounding voices of faculty, friends, and ageing clergy muse pensively on the value and burdens of ministry in a changing world, revealing the quiet tensions beneath their devout façades.
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    26 mins
  • Elmer Gantry Chapter 3 Part 4-8

    Elmer Gantry Chapter 3 Part 4-8
    Mar 21 2026
    In which a large, robust young man wrestles with the weighty task of delivering a public address on divine love, borrowing from unexpected sources and the Bible amid the watchful eyes of a devout college community. The episode captures the mingled curiosity, scepticism, and solemn hope of those around him, set against the backdrop of earnest religious fervour and youthful ambition.
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    28 mins
  • Elmer Gantry Chapter 3 Part 3

    Elmer Gantry Chapter 3 Part 3
    Mar 20 2026
    In which Elmer Gantry, accompanied by his devoted mother, attends a fervent evangelical meeting where the impassioned oratory and heartfelt hymns sweep him into a spontaneous public conversion before a cheering crowd. Torn between the ecstatic commitment demanded by the gathering and the quiet scepticism of his old friend Jim Lefferts, Elmer wrestles privately with doubt and the uneasy promise of his newfound role.
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    26 mins
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