The San Francisco Bay Guardian takes a long look at Professor Lauren Coodley's almost single-handed Upton Sinclair boosterism. She's prepared a new anthology, The Land of Orange Grove and Jails, of Sinclair's writings for Heyday Books. What's interesting is that Coodley discovered Sinclair almost completely by accident, while substituting for a political science class. And apparently, the Huntington Museum turned down a collection of Sinclair's papers.
Word has it that Paul Thomas Anderson's next film will be an adaptation of Sinclair's novel "Oil!", starring Daniel Day-Lewis:
http://www.ptanderson.com/latestnews/main.htm
Posted by: Matt at March 31, 2005 09:13 AM