Reading: It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis: an imagined fascist takeover of the U.S. This is not one of Lewis's acclaimed novels, but I read it at a tender age (perhaps 10), and it has often struck me how vividly I remembered pieces of it after six decades:  Berzelius (Buzz) Windrip, a Doremus Jessup can never die, steel fishing rods & castor ( Read more... )