An Interview With Susan Sontag

[alice wellintown]

Thanks for nothing, again, you, Monroe.

Just finished reading The Best American Essays (2003 in the series
Sontag once guest edited) and decided to incorporate her
essay(reprinted in the volume from her book Regarding the Pain of
Others), "Looking at War" in a course that looks at how American
artists responded to photography (I mentioned Sheeler previously) and
war. I begin with HSG, then Red Badge and Brady, a bunch, but need
more prose, more essays as the course demands that concentrate on the
non-fiction. Of course, we dive deep into the issue of fiction and
history making and the reel/real and the like.

So, um, yeah, thanks,

T

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> June 1975
> An Interview With Susan Sontag
> Geoffrey Movius
>
>
> Geoffrey Movius: In one of your recent essays on photography in The
> New York Review of Books, you write that “no work of imaginative
> literature can have the same authenticity as a document,” and that
> there is “a rancorous suspicion in America of anything that seems
> literary.” Do you think that imaginative literature is on the way out?
> Is the printed word on the way out?