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Keith Ridgway's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Meeting Jamie Stewart Vestry There There Meeting Yu Hua Do Make Say Think Show Dying In The Country / The Basket Meeting Ishiguro Meeting Andy Warhol The Failure Of Planets My Pathology Rothko Eggs Deaf Boy Slowly Meeting Woody Allen Meeting Susan Sontag St. Luke's Summer Interzone I am also working on two novels and a radio play. I can't tell you the titles of those for some reason, possibly related...
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CR Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Four seminal visual arts texts by Bruno Munari, Marshall McLuhan, Susan Sontag and John Berger have been republished as part of Penguin’s ongoing project to honour its design heritage.
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AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Note to self: Never have children. Second note to self: Never write private things down — ever. These are just some new things I've picked up, recently, after learning that the late Susan Sontag 's son will be publishing her personal diaries — her detailing of sexual discovery included. Sontag was a prolific essayist whose relationship with photographer Annie Leibowitz was only really solidified publicly...
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Jugalbandi (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. - Susan Sontag Click on the logo for more Photo Essays. Bamboo You don’t have to be a panda to love Bamboo. The Japanese can’t get enough of it. They have used it extensively over the centuries as roofs, floors, beams, [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
"I intend to do everything ... I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too for it is everywhere! ... everything matters!" So wrote 16-year-old Susan Sontag in 1946. One of the finest American writers, thinkers, and political activists of the past four decades, Susan Sontag led a rich and creative life. Her opinions would anger and impress critics in equal measure.
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Erica Jong declares herself the new Susan Sontag and expounds on matters political . [HT: Drudge Report ]
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The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
We are stumped as to what we should be for Halloween. "Zombie Susan Sontag" is a perennial fave. Other options include a Be Kind Rewind Ghostbuster , Sylar from Heroes (monobrow, unlimited powers) or Beard Papa . We will probably just end up squirting fake blood all over our face and, when asked, cryptically call ourselves "The Aftermath." So maybe we shouldn't wait until the last minute every year?...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Book editor Julia Cheiffetz is royally P.O.'ed that Malcolm Gladwell's new book about extraordinary achievers, Outliers, does not include a single woman. "What about Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Jugalbandi (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. - Susan Sontag Click on the logo for more Photo Essays. Last weekend, the day after we had a ton of snow, we dusted off our camera and took it to a nearby park to scout for some yellows, oranges and reds. [...]
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Jugalbandi (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. - Susan Sontag Click on the logo for more Photo Essays. “Shape is a good part of the fig’s delight.” ~ Jane Grigson
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Dialogic (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Errol Morris The Bat Segundo Show Host: Edward Champion Subjects Discussed: Susan Sontag?s ?Regarding the Torture of Others,? the American cycle of photographing physical abuse, finding out what we?re looking at before drawing conclusions, the differences between a still image and a moving image, reenactments, guiding the viewer?s ability to map reality, Comte de Lautréamont, misinterpreting Crimean...
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Blogs for the NC State Community (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
In this article Susan Sontag introduces the reader to Happenings, which she describes as a cross between art exhibit and theatrical performance. While it might not seem apparent the direction one might take Happenings in the context of a composition class, Sontag gives the basics behind Happenings, while Lutz and Deemer seek to apply Happenings in the classroom. Sontag says of the Happening, the...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Few film critics become revered cult figures in their own right, but the writer and painter Manny Farber was arguably the prime exception. Susan Sontag called Farber "the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic [the US] ever produced." From the 1940s on, Farber originated a new strain in American film criticism.
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The death of the editor Robert Giroux, whose distinguished career at the leading American publishers Harcourt and Farrar, Straus & Giroux led to the first appearance in print of writers such as Jack Kerouac, Flannery O’Connor, Susan Sontag and Robert Lowell, provides an opportunity to reflect on the pivotal importance of publishing’s back-room alchemists. Obituaries may [...]
