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According to Sontag's biographer Benjamin Moser, Sontag was the true author of the text on Freud, which she wrote after David's birth, and in the separation the latter was the subject of an exchange: she handed over the authorship of the book to Rieff, he gave her their son.
Oct 8, 2019 · The tl;dr of any Sontag essay could only be every word of it. Sontag was a queer, Jewish woman writer who disdained the rhetoric of identity. She was diffident about disclosing her sexuality.
David Rieff ( / ˈriːf /; born September 28, 1952) is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism. Biography. Rieff is the only child of Susan Sontag, [1] who was 19 years old when he was born.
Benjamin Moser received the 2020 Prize in Biography for his thorough, empathetic exploration of the writer’s genius and humanity. Read on to discover how this work came together and why researching Sontag’s life felt like “standing in front of the Himalayas.”
Sep 16, 2019 · Susan Sontag and the Unholy Practice of Biography. A new book is as unillusioned about the writer as she was about herself. By Janet Malcolm. September 16, 2019. Susan Sontag, New York, August...
Mar 28, 2016 · There was some discussion of coming after Sontag’s eleven-year-old son, David, was asleep, so that the photographs wouldn’t alarm him and give him nightmares. That evening in the hospital in 1975, her friend found something wide and flat for her to write on, and she scribbled away.
Oct 16, 2023 · In New York’s cultural scene during the later years of the twentieth century, Susan Sontag was everywhere. Her short stories appeared in The New Yorker, her novels graced the National Book Award for Fiction list, and her critical works shook the cultural world to its core.
