A review by amittaizero
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by Walker Evans, James Agee

5.0

There are two brands of Southern Gothic: that which is socially aware and that which is "Twilight" with a Southern accent. This book is a damn good antidote for the latter. Agee's moral agonizing and intense self-awareness keep him as honest as possible and I can empathize thoroughly with his brand of madness; the neuroses that come from being a Southerner with an easily excited social conscience. Damn this beautiful, God-bitten, unhappy/happy land.