Susan Sontag
An admirer looks at the works of renowned photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson 26 October 1999, on exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. The exhibition entitled 'Tete-a-Tete': Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson, includes 70 portraits of the 20th century's leading writers, artists and public figures, including Jean Paul Sartre, Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan Sontag, Colette, Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso. The photgraphs will be on exhibit until 09 January 2000.
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And what am I now, as I write this? Nothing less than an entirely different person…—And I was so close to completely negating myself of surrendering altogether. I know now a little of my capacity…I know what I want to do with my life, all of this being so simple, but so difficult for me in the past to know…
There are too few of them anyway!
It is useless for me to record only the satisfying parts of my existence...More quotes »
Around the web
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Lszl Krasznahorkai - Seiobo There Below
‘the contemporary Hungarian master of the apocalypse' by Susan Sontag, Krashnahorkai's visions are interminably bleak and dystopian but beautifully written. Ottie Mulzet has taken on the unenviable task of translating this sprawling, complex book for maverick 10:35 AM from Culture Critic UK Read more »
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The New York Review Abroad
This new collection of some of the best of overseas reportage includes articles from Joan Didion, Tim Judah and Susan Sontag, with topics ranging from impromptu theater in conflict-ridden Sarajevo to a gravediggers’ strike in Liverpool. 6/17/13 from Barnes & Noble Review Read more »
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Susan Sontag is doubled in new play homage
as being on the shallow side, you'll really cringe when comparing them to the ambitious eloquence to be found in essayist Susan Sontag's published journals. Sontag, who died in 2004, is considered one of the most influential writers of her time, with works 12:23 AM from Reading Eagle Read more »
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Writers and the Optimal-Child-Count Spectrum
an essay on the Web site of The Atlantic last week remarking on the fact that many of the female writers she most admires—Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Hardwick, Ellen Willis—all had only one child. In the article, which was bait-titled from The New Yorker Read more »
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The Big Idea #4: Eve Ensler
call it “transformational juice.” Infusion suites would become “transformational suites” or “journey rooms.” Rumpus: If Susan Sontag [who argued against the “metaphorizing” of cancer in Illness as Metaphor] were listening to this… Rumpus: Yes, and I’ve wondered from The Rumpus Read more »
