Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories; several plays; and seven works of nonfiction. She died in New York City on December 28, 2004.
"Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she's supposed to
be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now
wears the tag 'intellectual.'" --Adam Begley, The New York Observer
on Susan Sontag"[Sontag is] one of our very few brand-name
intellectuals. . .the bearer of the standard of high seriousness in
a culture that has essentially capitulated to the easy lifting of
the ironic mode or the ready clasp of pure entertainment." --Sven
Birkets, The Yale Review on Susan Sontag"Not only did [her work]
serve what should be an essential function of criticism, that of
introducing readers to new work, weird work, things they wouldn't
ordinarily encounter . . . it did so in a notable un-weird manner.
Thoroughly trained in literature and philospohy, Sontag applied the
standard of the past--truth, beauty, transcendence,
spirituality--to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation,
extremity, perseverity . . . And the writing was
marvelous--high-toned, Brahmin, but full of zest and the pleasure
of performing." --Joan Acocella, The New Yorker on Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she's supposed to
be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now
wears the tag 'intellectual.' Adam Begley, "The New York Observer
on Susan Sontag" [Sontag is] one of our very few brand-name
intellectuals. . .the bearer of the standard of high seriousness in
a culture that has essentially capitulated to the easy lifting of
the ironic mode or the ready clasp of pure entertainment. Sven
Birkets, "The Yale Review on Susan Sontag" Not only did [her work]
serve what should be an essential function of criticism, that of
introducing readers to new work, weird work, things they wouldn't
ordinarily encounter . . . it did so in a notable un-weird manner.
Thoroughly trained in literature and philospohy, Sontag applied the
standard of the past--truth, beauty, transcendence,
spirituality--to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation,
extremity, perseverity . . . And the writing was
marvelous--high-toned, Brahmin, but full of zest and the pleasure
of performing. Joan Acocella, "The New Yorker on Susan Sontag""
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