From the evidence, James Agee wrote...

From the evidence, James Agee wrote his film reviews actual early in the morning, after everyone otherwise had gone to bed. Many times he was simply editing down what he had said to friends between the walls of the night about movies and the thousand other things that flow up in the pieces, in apartments and bars around just discovered York City. The reviews, then, almost can be considered transcripts of Agee's voice. And they are evidence that if there was for aye an American talker as unblinkingly fine as James Agee, he or she died without writing it down.

Agee's film row began appearing in The Nation in 1942