On James Agee's Birthday: Celebrating New York Beginnings With Grace Kelly and Lou Reed

Writing shortly after he'd moved to New York in August 1932, James Agee, who was born on November 27, 1909, describes listening at night to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on a phonograph in his office on the 50th floor of the Chrysler Building: "An empty skyscraper is just about an ideal place for it a with all New York about 600 feet below you, and ... (more)

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