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Susan Sontag by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer. & Susan Sontag by Jerome Boyd Maunsell

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March 2015, no. 369

Susan Sontag: A biography by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer.

Northwestern University Press, US$62.95 hb, 280 pp

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Susan Sontag by Jerome Boyd Maunsell

Reaktion Books (NewSouth), $29.99 pb, 214 pp

Susan Sontag by Daniel Schreiber, trans. David Dollenmayer. & Susan Sontag by Jerome Boyd Maunsell

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March 2015, no. 369

At the age of eight I wanted to be a novelist. By the age of eighteen, having fallen in love with an intellectual, I aspired to be a novelist with sturdy intellectual credentials. There was much work to be done. My beloved set me a course of essential reading, including Susan Sontag’s first two essay collections and her two early novels.

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