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...
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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 (194...
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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 ...
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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 res...
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An 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 ...
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Question 1 of 10:
Paul
and his ‘Fast Show’ partner
Charlie
Higson
once worked together as what?Buskers
Decorators
Telesales operatorsSuit salesmenQuestion 2 of 10:
Paul
, who would...
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Question 1 of 10:Unsurprisingly, ‘
Johnny
Vegas
’ is NOT his real name. But what is?
Martin
Pollard
Michael
Pennington
Maxwell
Pickson
Maurice
Pollinger
Question 2 of 10:He...
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Sydney (dpa) - An agreement on tackling climate change was one
possible outcome for a meeting in Australia of finance ministers from
21 Asia-Pacific countries, Treasurer Pet...
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On a Famous FatherQ – You're not the first famous member of your family, are you?A – My dad is the
actor
Tony
Britton
, who was most recently in ‘The Way We Live Now’ and p...
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No 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 minimalis...
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No 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 minimalis...
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Mr. 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 cam...
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Mr. Roger C. AltmanEvercore 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 campa...
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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Critical Essay by Carl Rollyson
Thursday Styles With Tom Scocca: The Way We Live Now
