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Oct 8, 2019 · How Susan Sontag Taught Me to Think. The critic A.O. Scott reflects on the outsize influence Sontag has had on his life as a critic. By A.O. SCOTT OCT. 8, 2019. I spent my adolescence in a ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Authors & Writers. Womens Rights Activists. Susan Sontag was a critical essayist, cultural analyst, novelist and filmmaker. She wrote 'On Photography,' 'Illness as Metaphor,' 'The...
Oct 21, 2019 · Oct. 21, 2019. SONTAG. Her Life and Work. By Benjamin Moser. A man who’d been a classmate in grade school remembered being accosted one day in the yard by Susan Sontag, then around the age of...
Benjamin Moser received the 2020 Prize in Biography for his thorough, empathetic exploration of the writer’s genius and humanity. Read on to discover how this work came together and why researching Sontag’s life felt like “standing in front of the Himalayas.”.
Dec 13, 2019 · Sontag, a prolific writer, filmmaker, cultural critic and political activist, died in 2004. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm) For the first 704 pages of Benjamin Moser’s compendious biography of Susan...
Feb 27, 2000 · The Hunger Artist. By Joan Acocella. February 27, 2000. Sontag says of her fiction, “I discovered that I liked to tell stories and make people cry.” Photograph By Richard Avedon. Susan Sontag...
Sep 15, 2019 · UTRECHT, Netherlands — When asked what she was best known for, Susan Sontag, the formidable 20th-century public intellectual, essayist, novelist and political activist, often told people, with...
