Author of five novels, including The Lessons & The Girl on the Page, pub by 4th Estate. Former Director of Books at Booktopia. Admirer of @tamsinsteelart.
When Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt and Main Street, became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, John Updike reports he was overhead saying, "This is the end of me. This is fatal. I cannot live up to it."
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From our archive: First published in 1920 and a runaway best seller, Sinclair Lewis’s ‘Main Street’ may have single-handedly, and radically, transformed American perceptions of small-town life. https://t.co/AoArd18i8m
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Slowly #reading a 1989 book containing #Russian translations of 'Main Street' and 'Babbit' by Sinclair Lewis. I can't say I love 'Main Street': characters, setting, premise - all are stereotypes, not individuality #classical #books #Americanliterature https://t.co/ilDuykuFFz