All That Gab
James Wolcott: The Upsides of Sontag’s Downsides, 24 October 2019
Sontag: Her Life
by Benjamin Moser.
Allen Lane, 832 pp., £30, September 2019,978 0 241 00348 0 Show More
by Benjamin Moser.
Allen Lane, 832 pp., £30, September 2019,
“... the effect Sontag still has on me 15 years after her death, and nothing less will do. Born Sue Rosenblatt, a rabbity name that would never do on a marquee, she chose to be known as Susan Sontag (taking the surname of her stepfather, her biological father having died when she was five). ‘To write, I must love my name,’ Sontag declared, and hers ... ”