LEADER 04255oam 22006614a 450 001 9910809454403321 005 20211005075433.0 010 $a0-8232-5080-6 010 $a0-8232-5081-4 010 $a0-8232-5022-9 010 $a0-8232-2494-5 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008053 035 $a(EBL)3239464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483126 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11338857 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483126 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529599 035 $a(PQKB)10551627 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239464 035 $a(OCoLC)647876453 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1113202 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1113202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11198183 035 $a(OCoLC)922904302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30251525 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30251525 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008053 100 $a20050617e20051968 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrooklyn Is$eSoutheast of the Island: Travel Notes /$fJames Agee ; with a preface by Jonathan Lethem 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2005. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2013 210 4$dİ2005. 215 $a1 online resource (63 p.) 300 $aRepublication of the author's Southeast of the island, which was previously published in The collected short prose of James Agee, Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 311 $a0-8232-2492-9 327 $a""Brooklyn Is""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The Beginning""; ""About the Author""; ""Other Titles by James Agee"" 330 $aFor 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 The draft was rejected for creative differences,and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes.Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn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, itspitch-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 330 8 $aBrooklyn, 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. 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xDescription and travel 607 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century 607 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$xDescription and travel 676 $a974.7/23 676 $a974.723 700 $aAgee$b James$f1909-1955.$0196373 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809454403321 996 $aBrooklyn Is$94034702 997 $aUNINA