Author: James Agee

Cited by

• Garth Risk Hallberg (1)
  • IN: A Field Guide to the North American Family (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A piece of the body torn out by the roots might be more to the point.
    FROM: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, (1941), Book, US
• Emily Culliton (1)
  • IN: The Misfortune of Marion Palm (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In Upper Flatbush, already two miles deep inland from the bridges, a young woman of Manhattan asked a druggist how she might get into certain territory well south of there. Without thought of irony he began, "Oh. You want to go to Brooklyn."
    FROM: Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes, (1968), Book, US
• Hillary Jordan (1)
  • IN: Mudbound (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If I could do it, I'd do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food and excrement. . . . A piece of the body torn out by the roots might be more to the point.
    FROM: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, (1941), Book, US