  I'm on a one man crusade to get everyone I know to read urlLink _Let Us Now Praise Famous Men_ by James Agee. It is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read, and I know that that sounds completely phoney and trite.
I don't have anything like the ability to describe this book. I think it is as good as anything written by an American. It is an incredibly patient book though; I'm not saying that you shouldn't read it on the subway, just that I think you'll get a lot more out of it if you read it in a quiet room somewhere. Photos by urlLink Walker evans . 
