Susan Sontag

...Burroughs, Italo Calvino, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Janet Frame, Allen Ginsberg, Czeslaw Milosz, Yukio Mishima, Edward Said, Susan Sontag, Hunter S Thompson, John Updike, Evelyn Waugh... and Vladimir Nabokov? Their estates figure among...

In this article: Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura, Lolita, Kingsley Amis, Penguin, and Moniza Alvi

...bookstore shelves, not yet icons of our literary culture. And the ads capture many beloved authors-Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and Kurt Vonnegut among a great many others-at moments before their careers were assured, before...

In this article: Cormac McCarthy, E mail, White Noise, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, and Kurt Vonnegut

...influential figure in France by the early 1960s, but "hardly known in this country," according to a young Susan Sontag. Sontag, therefore, took it upon herself to hail him in a 1963 essay, published in the New York Review of Books, that...

In this article: Sally Quinn, Cecilia Bartoli, Gene Weingarten, and Tristes Tropiques

...the Prix Goncourt, said it would have awarded the 1955 prize to "Tristes Tropiques" had it been fiction. Novelist and intellectual Susan Sontag called it "one of the great books of the century." In the book, the New York Times Book Review...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, Tristes Tropiques, France, Philosophy, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Paris

...ferment in the culture. Particularly the '60s and '70s, you had these real personalities pop up, like Hunter S. Thompson and Susan Sontag and James Baldwin and Ken Kesey. These people were larger-than-life personalities in addition to being...

In this article: Alfred A. Knopf, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Jerome Weidman, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence, and Balzac

...is that Leibovitz reportedly got into this mess over what is being called the "gay tax." When her partner, author and activist Susan Sontag, died several years ago, Annie was faced with huge inheritance taxes, sending her into financial ruin.

In this article: Tax, Annie Leibovitz, Marc Anthony, Wesley Snipes, O.J. Simpson, Willie Nelson, Boris Becker, Richard Hatch, Nicolas Cage, and IRS

...vivid and occasionally acidic character studies of such famous peers as James Merrill, Thom Gunn, Robert Mapplethorpe and Susan Sontag. But for an iconic writer of his stature, the prose in "City Boy" is often borderline incoherent and...

In this article: Michael Chabon, Paul Rudnick, New York City, Castor oil, Details magazine, Thom Gunn, David Sedaris, and James Merrill

...Lohan's step-out with Samantha Ronson. I have also noticed more experimentation among older women. The late American author Susan Sontag had an entertaining explanation for this phenomenon. She said that her late-life lesbianism was...

In this article: Rowan Pelling, Champagne, Erotic Review, Britney, Lindsay Lohan, Samantha Ronson, Madonna, and Disneyland

...into poverty, he went on to become the most distinguished of Brazilian writers, garnering praise from Salman Rushdie, Woody Allen and Susan Sontag, among others. This is an excellent translation from the Portuguese by John Gledson, who also...

In this article: Machado de Assis, Salman Rushdie, and Woody Allen

...most vulnerable blind spot was her property portfolio. Two of her acquisitions were prompted by her "love affair" with Susan Sontag, the novelist and literary critic, who until her death in 2004 was one of America's most celebrated...

In this article: Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Cash flow, Rolling Stone magazine, and Daily Beast