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JAMES AGEE: A LIFE by Laurence Bergreen Dutton; 467 pages...
James Agee spent the rest of his life trying to understand his father's absurd end, spinning his own wheels as he hurtled to an early death. But what Laurence Bergreen's solid, unassuming biography makes clear is how much Agee managed to accomplish during that ride. While he was drinking himself to the edge of alcoholism, while he was compulsively womanizing, while he was further wasting himself by lamenting this waste in allnight soliloquies, Agee was also producing...
From his days as critic for TIME and the Nation in the 1940s, Bergreen shows, Agee left a collection of brilliantly discursive film reviews that helped establish the standards for the art. He wrote two moving and complex novels. He composed at least five screenplays, including that shaggy Bogart-Hepburn classic, The African Queen. He turned out reams of verse, published and unpublished, and won the prestigious Yale Younger Poets award...
...Laurence Bergreen, a magazine writer and former teacher at New York City's New School, spent three years in research and interviews amassing the minute data of Agee's life. From the age of 18 on, Bergreen assures us, Agee had fairly set work habits and style. He wrote late at night in tiny script with newly sharpened pencils, chain smoking, sipping gin, listening to jazz. Agee did not know the meaning of a throwaway line. Even when he wrote prose, he tended to operate by the laws of a romantic poet-packing in all the vivid details...
RABELAIS by Jean-Louis Barrault: Eliot House Drama Society, director Laurence Bergreen, Eliot House courtyard, in a tent May 4-6, 11-13 8:00 PM $1.50 (beer will be served...