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| Name: |
Susan Sontag | | Birth Date: |
January 28, 1933 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
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 Biography of Susan Sontag
775 words, approx. 2.6 pages
 Among the literary stars of the radical 1960s, Susan Sontag (born 1933) produced numerous works evaluating and commenting on contemporary life and literature. Her essays appeared in nearly every major publication beginning in 1962, and her assessment of... summary from source:
 Biography of Susan Sontag
4862 words, approx. 16.2 pages
 Although Susan Sontag is best known as a critic, she has more than once expressed regret for having devoted so much time to having written the essays that brought her renown. As she once explained to reporter Leticia Kent, "a couple of things you do get... summary from source:
Biography of Susan Sontag
2501 words, approx. 8.3 pages
Susan Sontag, cultural critic, essayist, novelist, and filmmaker, was born 16 January 1933 in New York City. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, and at the age of fifteen (1948) entered the University of California at Berkeley. S...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Way We Live Now Information
250 words, approx. 1 pages
The Way We Live Now is a short story by Susan Sontag which was published to great acclaim on November 24, 1986 in The New Yorker. The story describes the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, as the disease began to claim members of the New...
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 The New York Observer Thursday Styles With Tom Scocca: The Way We Live Now
8/18/2005: 1,236 words, approx. 4 pagesAn hideously horribly overly long edition of Thursday Styles with Tom Scocca, a weekly recording of an IM conversation with Tom Scocca, the New York Observer's Off the Record columnist. Brought to you as a public service by your trusty Transom editor. MediaTom: Well, have... summary from source:
The New York Observer A Disappointing Pharrell Nurses His Contradictions
8/6/2006: 925 words, approx. 3 pagesNo figure embodies the ambiguous last decade of popular music quite like Pharrell Williams. His work as the public face of the production duo the Neptunes helped make ecstatic, percussive minimalism the default radio and dance-floor standard. Out of inchoate raw materials—the third-wave gangster rap... summary from source:
The New York Observer A Disappointing Pharrell Nurses His Contradictions
8/6/2006: 925 words, approx. 3 pagesNo figure embodies the ambiguous last decade of popular music quite like Pharrell Williams. His work as the public face of the production duo the Neptunes helped make ecstatic, percussive minimalism the default radio and dance-floor standard. Out of inchoate raw materials—the third-wave gangster rap... summary from source:
The New York Observer Gad! Roger Altman: \'d4Hamilton Project\'d5 Is Spinach, Hell!
4/23/2006: 989 words, approx. 3 pagesMr. Roger C. Altman Evercore Partners 55 East 52nd Street New York, N.Y. 10055 Dear Roger: You may recall that I wrote you a couple of years ago in connection with some ideas for the Kerry campaign. I didn’t hear back, which didn’t surprise me,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Carl Rollyson
4,523 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Rollyson examines Sontag's short story “The Way We Live Now” and her book-length essay AIDS and Its Metaphors, comparing and contrasting the two, their respective critical appraisals, and includes some commentary on each by Sontag herself.
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