Kyle Harrison
to-read
Main Street
- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- Published
- 1920
- Pages
- 448
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Sinclair Lewis’s satire of small-town Minnesota through Carol Kennicott, the newcomer who tries to reform Gopher Prairie.
Where I heard about it
- Travels with Charley — Steinbeck passes through Lewis’s hometown of Sauk Centre and reflects on how the town turned on him and later claimed him; my note there reads “Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street - look it up”.
Referenced in
- Can This Little Bookstore Save a Rust-Belt Town? note
- Christopher Alexander note
- Companies Rarely Grow Into Their Valuations (Nnamdi Iregbulem) note
- ESOP note
- Mission-Driven Work note
- My Bookstore book
- The Lost Continent book
- Walt Disney note
- Walt Disney and the Promise of Progress City book
- Winning the AI Race (All-In and Hill & Valley Forum, 2025) note