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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 Hourly
Episodes
  • The Job Part 1 - The City Chapter 2

    The Job Part 1 - The City Chapter 2
    Jun 29 2026
    In which Una Golden, newly arrived from her insipid small town, surveys the bustling, unromantic city of New York with a mixture of awe and resolute ambition, absorbing its sights and sounds while clinging to the hope of a better future for herself and her mother. She throws herself into the humbler world of commercial schooling with diligent eagerness, finding in her studies a newfound sense of purpose and the stirring promise of a life transformed.
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    17 mins
  • The Job Part 1 - The City Chapter 1

    The Job Part 1 - The City Chapter 1
    Jun 28 2026
    In which we meet Una Golden, a modest, aspiring young woman of Panama, Pennsylvania, whose genteel upbringing and limited prospects force her to wrestle with the confines of small-town life and the stifling expectations of womanhood. Faced with the passing of her father and the pressing need to provide for her widowed mother, Una boldly resolves to seek her fortunes beyond her provincial roots by pursuing a career as a business woman in New York.
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    31 mins
  • Free Air Chapter 34 - The Beginning of a Story

    Free Air Chapter 34 - The Beginning of a Story
    Jun 27 2026
    In which a spirited picnic in the Cascades serves as the backdrop for the decidedly unrefined and adventurous Gilson party, where Claire finds herself delighting in a spontaneous rattling escapade with Milt Daggett, far removed from the decorum of their usual company. Their escapade, marked by flooded creeks and impromptu wading in cold streams, blossoms into a lighthearted and earnest camaraderie that hints at the sweeter complexities of youthful romance and freedom.
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    13 mins
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