Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / ... (Library of America Susan Sontag Edition)
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Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (LOA #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / ... (Library of America Susan Sontag Edition) Details
About the Author David Rieff is the author of Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir and the editor of the journals and notebook of Susan Sontag, of which two volumes have appeared to date. His many other books include At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. He lives in New York. Read more
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She is simply one of the most ferociously intelligent critics we have every had. Not a great stylist as an essayist, like a Gore Vidal or James Baldwin. But damnit she is an extraordinarily curious and perceptive critic. Great stuff.
