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This is available for a dollar on the public library's books for sale shelf.

Thought about it for a millisecond but I can't even.

Aktuelle Meldung:
Zum 140. Geburtstag des Literaturnobelpreisträgers Sinclair Lewis, dessen Roman "Das ist bei uns nicht möglich" nun nochmals traurige Berühmtheit erlangt.

>> https://www.sf-lit.de/aktuelle-meldungen/letzte-meldung-2501/

#SinclairLewis #DasIstBeiUnsNichtMöglich

"Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not possibly! We're a country of freemen."

"The answer to that," suggested Doremus Jessup, "if Mr. Falck will forgive me, is 'the hell it can't!' Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America."

https://www.npr.org/2010/01/01/485890499/excerpt-it-cant-happen-here

#sinclairlewis #itcanthappenhere #fascism

Good Books Now In The Public Domain

In addition to being the first day of the New Year, January 1 is also known as Public Domain Day, when titles previously under copyright enter the public domain in many countries, including the U.S.

This year’s titles include a host of good books by some authors you might have heard of including William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton and Mahatma Gandhi among others.

Standard EBOOKS is celebrating by providing links to twenty of the titles available to download in different formats that should work with most ebook readers.

These book titles, were first published in 1929. I won’t get into the length of copyrights and all the issues surrounding that, but instead say this is an interesting collection of works, some early or first works by some of the authors listed above.

Keep in mind that on Public Domain Day a number of titles in other media also entered the public domain. Duke University publishes a more extensive, but not complete list that includes titles of plays, movies, characters, music compositions, art, and sound recordings. The date for sound recordings is 1924 and includes Rhapsody In Blue by George Gershwin.

You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.

#books #copyright #DashiellHammett #EdithWharton #JohnSteinbeck #PublicDomainDay #publicDomain #SinclairLewis #ThomasWolfe #WilliamFaulkner #Writing

Neighborhood Focus: Turtle Bay.

https://write.as/tales-from-progress-city/neighborhood-focus-turtle-bay

From Tent Camp to Militia Compound to National Forest: The Saga of Harvester South.

https://write.as/tales-from-progress-city/from-tent-camp-to-militia-compound-to-national-forest-the-saga-of-harvester

Neighborhood Focus: Olympic Park and the surrounding suburbs.

https://write.as/tales-from-progress-city/neighborhood-focus-olympic-park-and-the-surrounding-suburbs

Neighborhood Focus: Lake Winnemac

https://write.as/tales-from-progress-city/neighborhood-focus-lake-winnemac

Neighborhood Focus: Trout Alley.

https://write.as/tales-from-progress-city/neighborhood-focus-trout-alley

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
-- Sinclair Lewis

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #SinclairLewis #Advertising

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida

Nobelpristagaren skrev om Trump redan 1935#presidentvaletiusa #sinclairlewis #litteratur
Nobelpristagaren skrev om Trump redan 1935

I'm slowly rebuilding my #rare #book #eBay store this summer, one book a day over the next three months. Today, a #1stPrinting of #SinclairLewis's 1945 melodrama #CassTimberlane, from the "washed-up alcoholic who no longer gives a fuck" part of his late career. Only $30 or your best offer! https://www.ebay.com/itm/156232307957

Sinclair Lewis is one of my favourite American authors.

His novels are not only of historical interest, for they still offer valuable insights into the culture of the USA today.

I would particularly recommend the 1925 "Arrowsmith" to any student or worker in medicine or the life sciences.

#USLiterature #SinclairLewis #Arrowsmith

"There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble." — Sinclair Lewis — — — #SinclairLewis #quote #quotes #insult #humor #trouble #adversity #endure

3 things about Richard Brooks’ ELMER GANTRY [1960]

1. Shoveling coal in the furnace for a plate of black-eyed peas. Without a touch of self-loathing, he takes a job in a Black church.
2. She sticks the wad of cash in the top of her stocking and says, “The best bank in America.”
3. Cat in a cathouse.

#3things #movies #burtlancaster #religion #sinclairlewis #cinemastodon

a still from ELMER GANTRY showing Burt Lancaster as her delivers a fiery sermon in a tent revival meeting

Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, wrote his now classic novel It Can't Happen Here inspired by his anti-fascist journalist wife Dorothy Thompson. Join us on Patreon to hear more: patreon.com/gaslit

#SinclairLewis #DorothyThompson #AntiFascist #GaslitPodcast

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
-- Sinclair Lewis

⬆ #Quotes #SinclairLewis #Americans #Facism #Patriotism #Religion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #StPeteBeach #Florida

Fascinating article about the #V TV series on #VanityFair. It was inspired by a book called #ItCantHappenHere by #SinclairLewis. In the book, written in 1935, ‘United States is torn apart by a flamboyant blowhard politician who uses fearmongering and empty promises to the working class to win election before consolidating his power, shattering the traditions of governance, breaking any laws that constrain him, and stoking paranoia and division.’.

How unrealistic.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/the-v-files-legacy