Re: RARA-AVIS: Nathaniel West/Sinclair Lewis

From: Joy Matkowski (jmatkowski1@comcast.net)
Date: 19 Mar 2010

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    And It Can't Happen Here seems to portray the last decade, doesn't it? Joy

    jacquesdebierue wrote:
    > Of course, fads have nothing to do with quality. Just the other day somebody told me that Sinclair Lewis was not worth reading -- though the person hadn't actually read him. I told him that Babbitt and Main Street are mindblowing, that if somebody today wrote something as good as that about the present era, it would be a sensation. I doubt it had any effect, but I made the effort.
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