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Susan Sontag

  1. vulture lists
    Now That We’re All Epidemiologists, Here Are 9 Books to Further Your StudiesHistories of how we’ve handled viruses in the past that just might give a glimmer of hope for how we’ll respond when the next pandemic arrives.
    By David Vogel
  2. Michelle Dean’s Sharp Tells the Origin Stories of 10 Essential Female CriticsAcross these portraits it’s possible to trace currents in American literary history as it unfolded between World War I and now.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  3. How Does Susan Sontag’s Fiction Stack Up Against All Her Other Stuff?I hesitate to call these stories essential, but they are full of optional delights.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  4. trends
    Why Are So Many Female-Led Projects Called ‘Camp’?It can turn the boldest works about the interior lives of complex women into a curiosity, a joke, a punch line.
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  5. Gary Indiana’s Great Material“People like us are lucky because every shitty thing that happens to us is just more material,” Indiana has recalled Burroughs telling him.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  6. sunday reads
    Sunday Reads: Jonathan Franzen, D’Angelo, and Moonrise Kingdom PrepLong reads for your long weekend.
    By Caroline Bankoff and Andre Tartar
  7. chat room
    Fischerspooner’s Casey Spooner on Creating Entertainment and His Sweet Neon HatSpooner talks to us about a skeptical Susan Sontag examining his journals, how he’d welcome death, and that hat.
    By Nick Catucci