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Article: Grievous Angel: the unruly James Agee.(James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction)(Critical Essay)(Biography)
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- Harper's Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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Discussed in this essay:
James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction, edited by Michael Sragow. Library of America, 2005. 818 pages. $35. James Agee: Film Writing and Selected Journalism, edited by Michael Sragow. Library of America, 2005. 748 pages. $40.
If he had been born a few years later, and if he hadn t died at the age of forty-five, James Agee (1909-55) might have had a chance of grabbing Terry Southern's spot--the literary maverick's spot, right next to Dylan Thomas--on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album. Of course Agee, who was more talented and more tortured than Southern, didn't live long enough ...
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Article: Agee on film. (film critic James Agee)
Chicago Review;
January 1, 1995 ;
700+ words
...From the evidence, James Agee wrote his film reviews very early in ... almost can be considered transcripts of Agee's voice. And they are evidence that ... American talker as unblinkingly fine as James Agee, he or she died without writing it ...
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