The Way We Live Now Summary
Susan Sontag

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The Way We Live Now Summary

Susan Sontag's "The Way We Live Now" first appeared in the New Yorker in 1986. Narrated almost exclusively through dialogue, it tells of an unnamed man's struggle with the AIDS through the reactions of his large circle of friends.

Sontag began writing the story on the night she learned that a close friend had been diagnosed with AIDS. Very upset and unable to sleep, she took a bath; it was there that the story...

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The Way We Live Now

404,699 words, approx. 1,349 pages

CHAPTER I — THREE EDITORS Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-tab... Read more

Susan Sontag Biographies (3)

Susan Sontag

755 words, approx. 3 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... Read more

Susan Sontag

2,480 words, approx. 9 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 (194... Read more

Susan Sontag

4,866 words, approx. 17 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 ... Read more