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Hace 6 días · Although Agee completed few books over the course of his somewhat frenetic, all-too-brief writing life—one volume of poetry, two works of fiction, and the provocative prose lyric Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)—he wrote scores of ardent, impeccable, and far-reaching movie reviews and ultimately left behind a highly ...
Hace 6 días · Robert Towne, el icónico guionista ganador del Oscar por películas como “Chinatown”, “The Last Detail” y “Shampoo”, falleció a los 89 años. Los hechos ocurrieron en su hogar en Los Ángeles, según confirmó su publicista, Carri McClure.
25 de jun. de 2024 · To write home is to write precisely of physical space, on the one hand, and to write evocatively of the way that space is or has been inhabited, on the other. To write home is to see and feel, to delineate and dwell, to exercise the art of the specific and to explore the poetics of soul.
28 de jun. de 2024 · The Night of the Hunter, American crime thriller, released in 1955, that is regarded as a masterpiece of tone and suspense. Its screenplay was cowritten by Charles Laughton and James Agee, and it was the only directorial effort by Laughton. Surrealistic in style, the story concerns two young.
15 de jun. de 2024 · That Horrid Little Man. I picked up James Agee’s A Death in the Family mainly on the strength of Agee’s reputation as a great film critic and co-scenarist of THE AFRICAN QUEEN and NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, but also because of it’s first sentence:
30 de jun. de 2024 · Other founding officers included the literary critic Richard Poirier, as vice president, and the publisher Jason Epstein, as treasurer. [6] [13] Epstein, and later Aaron and Poirier, had all been involved in the long series of proposals and discussions that led up to the creation of the Library of America. [8]
29 de jun. de 2024 · In my late teens, I found a copy of James Agee’s A Death in the Family. Between Munro’s stories and Agee’s book I began to think that maybe even I had a view that could be shared. Much of what is done by the writers I love is about conveying a sensitivity to life via character or story.
