An Interview With Susan Sontag

[alice wellintown]

Just what this Hairy Ape wanted and didn't get this Magi. So tanks and
here's to monongahela sprouting from a dead whale's and cornflakes
sitting on your band's Londan tan.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:24 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>