In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enourmous critical acclaim....

Published in 1957, two years after its author\"s death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written....

Book DescriptionEverybody has a job to do, and so does the letter Z. But when the workday\'s done, Z goes home. On the way Z must pass an Alien, a Bridge, a Cake, and 22 other \'characters,\' each of them suggesting a familiar shape in Jon Agee\'s delightfulillustrations....

Told with great lyrical beauty and power, James Agee\'s novel is an exquisitely tender account of the pain and bewilderment of loss. Driving back home to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1915 after tending to a family emergency, Jay Follet is killed in a car accident....

Have you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course--everyone has! It can be sometimes frustrating, but it\'s always funny! For example, you know New York\'s unique, but did you know that unique New York\'s also pretty chic?...