James Agee: "If it hurts you, be glad of it."

Sad Men Podcast

This episode explores LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, a Depression-era book by the great James Agee. Giller Prize-winning author Johanna Skibsrud joins us for the podcast, explaining how Agee's work influenced her novel, QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME. This is a podcast created by Jason Boog, telling the stories of how a generation of men and women writers survived the Great Depression. Photograph by Walker Evans: "Laura Minnie Lee Tengle" http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007675778/ "Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Comfortable Mystery 2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Schubert: Symphony in C Major, D.944, the Great Podcast image: “High Straw Hat” by Ernest A. Towers, Jr. From the Index of American Design