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Susan Lee Sontag ( / ˈsɒntæɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay " Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.
Susan Sontag was an American intellectual and writer best known for her essays on modern culture. Sontag (who adopted her stepfather’s name) was reared in Tucson, Arizona, and in Los Angeles. She attended the University of California at Berkeley for one year and then transferred to the University.
A human rights activist for more than two decades, Ms. Sontag served from 1987 to 1989 as president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization dedicated to freedom of expression and the advancement of literature, from which platform she led a number of campaigns on behalf of persecuted and imprisoned writers.
Oct 8, 2019 · A 95-cent Dell paperback with a front-cover photograph of the author, Susan Sontag. There is no doubt that the picture was part of the book’s allure — the angled, dark-eyed gaze, the...
Jul 6, 2015 · In The Aesthetics of Silence, the first essay from her altogether indispensable 1969 collection Styles of Radical Will (public library), Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933–December 28, 2004) examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an increasingly secular culture.
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 12, who wanted to...
What did it feel like to enter the soul of Susan Sontag? BENJAMIN MOSER: The key to any writing is empathy. You have to know how to understand a person — real or fictional — different from yourself.
Dec 19, 2016 · Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar. Sontag begins by weighing the elasticity of language and the way in which words can expand meaning as much as they can contract it: We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality.
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...
Oct 16, 2023 · In New York’s cultural scene during the later years of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag was everywhere. Her short stories appeared in The New Yorker, her novels graced the National Book Award for Fiction list, and her critical works shook the cultural world to its core.
