For the first time in book form-a great writer's classic
celebration of the essence of Brooklyn. In 1939, James Agee was
assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of
Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for "creative
differences," and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire
in 1968 under the title "Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes."
Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn
Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood,
and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in
10,000 remarkable words, the essence of a place and its people.
Propulsive, lyrical, jazzy, and tender, its pitch-perfect
descriptions endure even as Brooklyn changes; Agee's essay is a New
York classic. Resonant with the rhythms of Hart Crane, Walt
Whitman, and Thomas Wolfe, it takes its place alongside Alfred
Kazin's A Walker in the City as a great writer's love-song to
Brooklyn and alongside E. B. White's Here Is New York as an
essential statement of the place so many call home. James Agee was
born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1909. One of the great prose
stylists of the past century, Agee wrote in many forms-poetry,
short stories, novels, essays, commentary, and criticism. In 1958
he won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for A Death in the Family,
and he also wrote the classic account of poor Southern farmers, Let
Us Now Praise Famous Men, accompanied by Walker Evans's documentary
photographs. With John Huston, he wrote the Oscar-nominated
screenplay for The African Queen, and he was an influential film
and theater critic for Time and The Nation. James Agee died in 1955
of a heart attack in a New York City taxicab. In the fall of 2005,
the Library of America will publish a two-volume collection of his
writings. Jonathan Lethem's novels include Fortress of Solitude and
Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle
Award, his most recent book is The Disappointment Artist. Lethem
was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he still lives.
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