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No one held Susan Sontag in higher esteem than she did: Her Life reviewed

14 September 2019

9:00 AM

14 September 2019

9:00 AM

Towards the end of this tale of imperial intellectual expansion, Susan Sontag’s publicist goes to visit his shrink and, dealing with some appalling professional trauma or other, mentions her name. The psychiatrist bursts out laughing. The publicist asks what is so funny and is told: ‘You can’t imagine how many people have sat on that couch over the years and talked about Susan Sontag.

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