docu-mental: mapping the american states of mind

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What is Susan Sontag's legacy to women intellectuals?

What is Susan Sontag's legacy to women intellectuals?

If "gayness" isn't what propels intellectuals, what will be the cause?

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Sep 27, 2019
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vol. 1 issue 30

Greetings,

For my premium subscribers, I have a question: who is your beacon of female intellectualism?

If it’s Susan Sontag, here is an audio clip of about a five minute exchange I had with her biographer, Benjamin Moser, this week during a discussion he gave about his new book, Sontag. The venue was the Connecticut Ave. Politics and Prose…

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