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From: Artforum
Date: 20060201
Author:Myers, Jason

TO COMMEMORATE THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY this month of Upton Sinclair's Jungle, the Bedford Series in History and Culture is issuing a definitive new edition of the muckraking classic, edited and introduced by Christopher Phelps. BOOKFORUM got Phelps to give us the nitty-gritty on Sinclair, who considered his book "the beginning of a proletarian literature in America." -Jason Myers

BOOKFORUM: There was recently a piece in the New York Times about Kraft and other companies "rating" foods on their healthiness. Would Upton Sinclair be pleased?

CHRISTOPHER PHELPS: Sinclair was suspicious of ...

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