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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
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  • Elmer Gantry Chapter 5

    Elmer Gantry Chapter 5
    Mar 22 2026
    In which the earnest young Elmer Gantry returns to his Kansas hometown draped in newfound clerical dignity, preparing to enter the Baptist ministry with a voice both commanding and polished, amidst the dusty congregation of humble farmers and neighbours. With a mix of solemn ceremony and rustic charm, the ordination unfolds under cottonwood shade, revealing the quaint customs and earnest hopes of a devout rural community embracing their freshly consecrated preacher.
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    26 mins
  • Elmer Gantry Chapter 6

    Elmer Gantry Chapter 6
    Mar 22 2026
    In which a group of aspiring Baptist clergymen, diverse in temperament and ambition, congregate in a modest seminary dormitory to spar over theology, church doctrine, and the practicalities of preaching life. Among them, the solitary Elmer Gantry wrestles with his restless spirit and aching loneliness, caught between youthful bravado and a yearning for connection.
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    36 mins
  • 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
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