Tag Archives: James Agee

2016 Books Read

I’ve enjoyed myself this year with reading. I have finally bounced back from 2009 and 2010, when I was so out of my mind that I could barely read anymore. (Larry McMurtry describes a similar thing happening to him post-heart … Continue reading

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Stuff I’ve Been Reading

— The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman A re-read. It’s so definitive that any book covering the same period (and there are libraries full of them) must reference it. One of her real gifts as a writer is giving … Continue reading

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A Death In The Family: Restored

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 of A Death in the Family, something he had been working … Continue reading

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The Books: “A Death in the Family” (James Agee)

Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: James Agee’s haunting evocative posthumously published novel A Death in the Family is next on the shelf. I have a long history with this book. I remember when I was in high school seeing some … Continue reading

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David Thomson: James Agee

“He was far from reliable — he could write off Kane as a reservoir of hackneyed tricks, and he was of the opinion that Chaplin and Huston were without equal in America. But he wrote like someone who had not … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Walker Evans

Biography of Walker Evans here. Below you will find a bunch of his photographs – interspersed with one of my favorite paragraphs from his collaboration with the brilliant James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Some of the photographs … Continue reading

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James Agee on silent comedy

James Agee wrote a piece for Life magazine called “Comedy’s Greatest Era” which appeared on September 3, 1949. It was Agee’s tribute to the masters of silent films – the Charlie Chaplins, the Buster Keatons, and more. If you are … Continue reading

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Un-guessed quote # 6 – This has now been guessed

Update: This is from James Agee’s amazing collaboration with Walker Evans “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” Here is this one. The clue I gave for this one is BRILLIANT, I have to say. I am QUITE proud of it. … Continue reading

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

This is an excerpt from James Agee’s amazing book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men:

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