James Agee: Selected Journalism. Paul Ashdown. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. 166 pp. $19.95 pbk.
Fans of poet, journalist, novelist, and scriptwriter James Agee will be pleased that this slightly revised collection of selected articles has been published and is available in paperback. Readers hoping for much more than renewed availability and a chance to reread Agee's essays, however, will be disappointed.
The first collection of these essays, written by Agee from 1933 to 1947, was published in hardcover in 1985 by Paul Ashdown, professor of journalism and electronic media at the University of Tennessee. Ashdown has added two articles, "The Scar" and …