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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private faceNo writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.

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I have a hard time understanding why this landmark biography of Susan Sontag--surely one of the handful of truly important American writers and thinkers in the postwar era--isn't on pretty much every Best of the Year list. Sure, the account of her life pays an awful lot of attention, especially early on, to Sontag's looks and the image of Susan Sontag that she created and capitalized on--but as Moser points out, she was a kind of intellectual celebrity from the very start of her career, and as much as she resisted and even contradicted the image of 'Susan Sontag" in her own life, she depended in it for her livelihood. And the meaning and value of the mass produced image was one of the subjects that she returned to in her writing continually. There is a lot of good old fashioned gossip here (did you know that Susan Sontag slept with RFK? I didn't ...) and the way that the celebrity culture of the 1990s and the Vanity Fair-era of New York City seemed to catch up with her and made her rich, at least by proxy, is depressing for sure. No one likes to see a hero become a grasping monster ... But the real reason to read this book is for the way it creates an intellectual history of the postwar era, and the amazing thing is--Sontag was at the red-hot center of the international cultural conversation from the time she published "Notes on Camp" (1964) until she died in 2004. I'd also read the book for Moser's re-evaluation of Sontag's many trips to Sarajevo when the city was under siege. The staging of "Waiting for Godot" that she directed in Sarajevo was dismissed as a publicity stunt by too many people in the culture industry at the time. Moser shows this intervention to be one of the most rewarding projects of her career and an act of intellectual resistance for the ages. I will read this book again for sure. Its brilliance is a match for its subject.

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