Books by Susan Sontag
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review 1: Ordinarily I like reading journals and diaries, and Sontag's journals lend themselves well to browsing. However, her own comments about "notebook thinking," and aphorisms apply here. I got the sense that even in her private journal, Sontag is alternately talking down to readers o...
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review 1: The 'eh' rating's not on Susan, but Susan's editorial son, David Rieff, whose annotations were a bit too few and far between in some places (for example, it would've been nice to know that writer Sigrid Nunez and David were partnered at the time of these journals) and excessive i...