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...think so. It’s why, after living in New York all his life, he decided in 1988 to jump ship. While the worlds of visual media, publishing, and finance were still thriving, he said, the “literary” intellectualism of the Trilling-Sontag variety (definition: “a dinner party can become acrimonious over such issues as Freudian analysis”) was extinct, or at least highly endangered. Kristol personally decided to head to Washington, D.C., the nation’s go-to location for public policy. But he argued that...
...There were new permissions in the air, and old hierarchies had softened, had become ripe for toppling,” wrote Susan Sontag in her 1996 piece “Thirty Years Later,” looking back on the cultural landscape mapped out in her first essay collection. It was, she concluded, a “mythical...
This is a very racy novel! I'm curious why you decided to write it. Well, Susan Sontag said something which has always fascinated me. She said that her novels don't exist as ideas in her head. They exist only as they are written. I was just ready to write this book. The gun sort of went off and it fell on the page, almost as if I was channeling...
Existing alongside the ethical mode of evaluation is the aesthetic mode. Aesthetics are value judgments about the world, about its beauty, its form, its order. There is a simple pleasure in pure appreciation without any justification—what Susan Sontag called the “erotics of art” in her “Against Interpretation”—but this too is part of the cloud of values and its modes of looking and observation...
...that "of the principal prize winners only one, Mr. Algren, had been on the best-seller lists" and all three "shared the common lot of being in part hard to read." Other renowned (if narratively challenging) recipients over the years include Joan Didion, William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag...