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Newest Review At TQC: Notes On Susan Sontag By Phillip Lopate
Monica McFawn reviews an interesting addition to the collection of Sontag scholarship:
Lopate is a writer of personal essays, and Notes on Sontag is, among other things, a study of how Sontag’s discomfort with the self both energized and limited her work. Sontag was deeply paradoxical: a writer whose strength was in nuance but who was often coarse in person, whose best work was borne of experience but who avoided discussing her own experiences, who was preoccupied with controlling her public image but was often woefully unaware of how she came across. Lopate is an ideal guide through Sontag’s troubled relationship to the self . . .
Or even more briefly:
Phillip Lopate’s alternatively admiring and exasperated take on Susan Sontag
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