Dialogue- A Death in the Family

From the moment you open the recently updated version of the James Agee classic "A Death in the Family", you realize this isn't your daddy's edition. For instance, the idyllic poem "Knoxville-Summer, 1915" at the beginning of the Pulitzer Prize-winning version is gone. In it's place, a disturbing nightmare sequence in which the main character carries the headless body of John the Baptist through the streets of Knoxville. And that's just for starters. Our guest on today's Dialogue says this is the version of "A Death in the Family" that James Agee wanted us to read. And it's a version that came to light only after years of painstaking research. It's a story of friendship, deception, marketing and some pretty intriguing detective work. On this segment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell speaks with University of Tennessee English professor Michael Lofaro, the man behind the new edition of this literary classic...

Posted by mpowell7 at December 5, 2007 01:00 PM | Links to this post
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