Word: sinclairism
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...what would some Mark Sullivan of the future pick as typical novels of that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that...
Describing the Hitler regime as "receivership of a broken down bourgeois order," Dorothy Thompson, wife of Sinclair Lewis, discussed the problems which the rule of the National Socialist party in Germany throw upon the world...
Wanted: A Russian Sinclair Lewis...
...latest volume suffers from the extreme dislike of the author for the Soviets but it is only by reading it and balancing this collection of essays with the works of equally rabid partisans of the system that we may be able to secure a fair picture. Perhaps someday a Sinclair Lewis will arise among the Russians and be able to write about his people with out prejudice...
...urbane satirist. It has had bucolic satirists, like Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne and Mark Twain, bull-roarers like H. L. Mencken, splenetic idealists like Sinclair Lewis, ironic fantasists like James Branch Cabell and Robert Nathan. But last week critics hitched up their chairs, clapped on their best glasses and took a good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical...