archives for Friday 29 June 2007
friday refrain · spooky
Friday 29 June 2007 | I like a cookie
Funny thing—about that James Dickey poem I quoted at the end of my last post? It’s actually by Agee. I read it about ten years ago and it immediately lodged in my head—one of those you memorize without trying—but forgot who wrote it, just looked it up again and felt a bit ill with recognition. [...]
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let us now praise famous men, part two
Friday 29 June 2007 | someone left a cookie
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. —James Agee In the unlikeliest of places—on Amazon.com’s page for the Library of America’s Agee reissue—I find a succinct and decidely conservative response called “Let Us Now Reexamine Famous Men,” in which amateur reviewer Charles Weinstein disagrees with other reviewers’ lavish praise of Agee: [...]
