The complete online text of They Call Me Carpenter by Upton Sinclair.

Upton Beale Sinclair, Jr. (1878-1968), American novelist and political writer, was one of the most influential muckraking writers of the 1900s. He continued to write and speak for reform for many years. Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on...

Upton Sinclair was a writer whose main concerns were politics and economics. His ideas about literature—his own, written over more than six decades, and that of others—were inseparable from his dreams of social justice. Consequently, the grea...

Upton Sinclair was a writer whose main concerns were politics and economics. His ideas about literature--his own, written over more than six decades, and that of others--were inseparable from his dreams of social justice. Consequently, the great majority...

The New York City and Vicinity Carpenters Labor-Management Corporation announced that the New York City Union Carpenters and Contractors, in partnership with the Leary Firefighters Foundation, led the way in a massive rebuilding effort aimed at restoring New Orleans' firehouses destroyed in Hurricane...

The 1993 appearance of WAYNE KOESTENBAUM's third book, The Queen's Throat, confirmed the author's singular presence on the literary landscape-and it signaled a fresh turn in American criticism. Forecasting an appetite for "mythologies" as divergent as Jackie O and Andy W, his ecstatic meditation...