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Dave's World (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
This morning I got a box of books from my parents' house basement. I came to a book I enjoyed in grad school by the famous [leftist]writer James Agee and opened the book randomly to page 212. I thought to myself, the area code for Manhattan. Noting the top lines underlined by myself long ago, I read: "[I do] not accuse or despise journalism for anything beyond its enormous power to poison the public...
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Beatrice (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Temperance Note: and Weather Prophecy Watch well The Poor in this late hour Before the wretched wonder stop: Who march along a thundershower And never touch a drop. Red Sea How long this way: that everywhere We make our march the water stands Apart and all our wine is air And all our ease the emptied sands? From James Agee: Selected Poems, the latest volume [...]
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Tad Mosel, a leading writer of live television dramas in the 1950s who won a Pulitzer Prize for "All the Way Home," his 1960 Broadway dramatization of James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family," has died. He was 86.
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Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
I have been spending some time lately with the Michael A. Lofaro Edition of James Agee’s novel A Death in the Family. The Lofaro was published earlier this year by The University of Tennessee Press, and is one of the most interesting scholarly editions of a work of fiction that I can recall. Lofaro is a professor of American literature and American and cultural studies at the University of Tennessee,...
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The Reading Experience (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Wyatt Mason disagrees with Will Blythe that the free indirect mode of narration, as illustrated in this case by James Agee's A Death in the Family, is an "exhausted trope": . . .Once one begins to issue such broad summonses,...
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News Dissector Blog (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN Saturday, June 14, FLAG DAY. Maybe it was irony, or clairvoyance, but the New York Times chose this week to feature an essay on James Agee, once labeled a “literary James Dean.” The article told us that that revered non-TV author shocked his fans and age by dying of a [...]
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The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Fascinating article about the new edition of James Agee's Death in the Family - just released. When James Agee died in 1955, he left behind a mostly finished manuscript, something he had been working on for a couple of years....
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Pete Lit (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Another day, another instance of dueling editions of a single work. Barely had the debate over Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love simmered down when word arrives of a new edition of James Agee's A...
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, and film critic. In the 1940s he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. During his lifetime, Agee enjoyed only modest public recognition, but since his death his literary...
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Like Anna Karina's Sweater (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
"Beside it every movie since Zéro de Conduite and Modern Times is so much child's play." Just one of the many eyebrow raising lines from James Agee's epic review of Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux that took three consecutive issues of The...
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Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
By Thoreau David Weigel fails to understand the importance of swing blocs in key states: The reason Republicans, until their recent meltdown, were trying to make gains with suburban, exurban, and Hispanic voters, is that those voters numbers’ are growing, and the numbers of white, James Agee-worthy whites are, proportionately, decreasing. It's a weird exercise, making a [...]
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James Wolcott's Blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Self-Styled Siren rises to the defense of the art of melodrama, which has gotten a bum rap from shrunken-lobe'd literalists and would-be smarties. The ignorance, flippancy, faddishness, favoritism, and absence of social-historical dimension in so much of film criticism today...
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God's Politics (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him [or her], too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life. - James Agee Let Us Now Praise Famous Men + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail
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Scary Go Round (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
This chapter of SGR has had some of the best and weirdest artwork ever. Bravo!I love the Wendigo that's flipping the Yak off. I feel a bit bad for laughing at the one in the wheel chair... hehe.Potter kebab...where on earth do these captchas come from'?? In other news, I did not know that yaks lived in canada. Pink skies in Canada too? Is the U.S.A. the only country with sucky blue and grey skies'...yaks...
