Susan Sontag

Regarding the Pen of Others

by Benjamin Moser,

By Benjamin Moser, from Sontag: Her Life and Work, which will be published by Ecco this month. “In the Freudian conception,” wrote one author, “as it gradually emerged through these…

Literary Agents

by J. Patrick Brown, Beryl Lipton, Michael Morisy,

From descriptions of writers included in FBI surveillance reports. The files were published this year by MIT Press. The collection, Writers Under Surveillance, was edited by JPat Brown, B.C.D. Lipton,…

Candid Camera

by Michelle Memran,

From transcripts of conversations between Maria Irene Fornes, a Cuban-American playwright and director, and Michelle Memran, a filmmaker. Memran’s documentary about Fornes’s life, The Rest I Make Up, is currently…

Discussing On Immunity: An Inoculation with Eula Biss

by Jeffery Gleaves, on October 1, 2014

Eula Biss discusses vaccinations, motherhood, and metaphors

Regarding the Fame of Others

by Jonathan Cott, Susan Sontag,

From previously unpublished excerpts of a 1978 interview with Susan Sontag by Jonathan Cott. An edited version of the interview appeared in the October 4, 1979, issue of Rolling Stone.…