Republication of the author's Southeast of the island, which was previously published in The collected short prose of James Agee, Houghton Mifflin, 1968.

"In 1939, James Agee was assigned by Fortune magazine to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue on New York City. His draft was rejected for creative differences, and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title "Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes."" "Agee captured in 10,000 words the essence of a place and its people. Scattered with bits of history, his lyrical, jazzy, tender, pitch-perfect descriptions of everything from quiet sidewalks in afternoon light to the hustle of immigrant playgrounds create an unforgettable picture that remains vivid and true - and one that endures even as Brooklyn changes. A great work by one of the great prose stylists of our century, it is a New York classic."--BOOK JACKET