November 09: A Death in the Family

November 21, 2009, Lois & Mark's
Book: A Death in the Family by James Agee.
Discussion leader: Emily

Continue reading for some of my notes and and links to articles that I found useful in preparing. Emily. 

• Agee on memory
• Agee's perception of childhood
• Religion and Agee
• Agee's 1945 Cover story from Time Magazine on the atomic bombing of Hiroshama
• PBS site on Agee, prepared in connection with the PBS video, including this biography
• Agee chronology
• Excerpts from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
• 1957 Time review (when the book was published)
• Time review of James Agee: A Life,  a 1984 biography
• NY Times 2008 review of new version as edited by Michael Lofaro
• John Leonard writes about Agee in the NY Times (2005)
• "Sparknotes" on the book