Tag: Sontag

• February 20, 2012

  ‘I arrived a bit early…’: How Susan made it to Chinatown

  On Tuesday night in the hours before the rain came, she’d brought Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag over to my place (to read part 1 of the story, go here or simply look one column over to your right) and placed it on the orange chest next to my copies of Seneca’s letters…
• February 18, 2012

  Sontag tells a joke: An excerpt from Sempre Susan

  The following excerpt is lifted gently out of Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag, New York, Atlas, 2011, pp. 82-3. Here is how the book fell into my hands. I found the receipt tucked between the final page and the dust jacket. It says that the book was purchased from McNally Jackson on…