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Literary Love Letters to Brooklyn
This week marked the release of Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes, a new chronicle of the borough’s literary history and author residents, which is getting some serious buzz. We’re excited to read it,...
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15 of the Greatest Lists in Literature
This week, Threaded reminded us of one of our favorite moments in Joan Didion’s The White Album — when she lists her packing list, incredibly simple and yet so revealing. Lists, of course, are no rare...
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10 Illuminating Nonfiction Books About Poverty
The New York Times today ran a groundbreaking story about a 12-year-old child who, growing up in a Brooklyn homeless shelter, leads something of a modern Dickensian existence. While stories about the...
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The 50 Best Southern Novels Ever Written
The American South has long been seen as the focus of the country’s Civil Rights Movement, carrying with it the stigma of poverty, racism, and anti-intellectualism. Yet the region has also produced a...
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Flavorwire’s Author Club May Selection: James Agee
James Agee’s landmark 1941 book on the lives of two Depression-era sharecropping families in the South, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, is surely more than enough to place him among the literary giants...
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Flavorwire Author Club: James Agee Defined New Journalism With ‘Let Us Now...
To read James Agee and Walker Evans’ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a disorienting thing. It is a strange beast of a book, a work of non-fiction, a work of journalism, I suppose; experimental,...
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Flavorwire Author Club: Read a Great Writer’s Confessions in ‘Letters of...
“I feel, in general, as if I were dying,” James Agee wrote in his final letter to Father Harold Flye on May 11, 1955. Five days later, just before the anniversary of his father’s death, which set into...
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Flavorwire Author Club: How James Agee Changed Film Criticism
What’s most impressive — and, in many ways, intimidating — about James Agee isn’t just the sheer versatility of his work, from poetry to nonfiction to novels to screenplays. It’s that he was so...
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A Nonfiction Tour of America: 50 Books for 50 States
Whether you’re staying at home this summer or traveling around to different parts of America, the easiest way to discover what makes this country tick, in ways both maddening and beautiful, is to read...
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