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Susan Sontag, Heroes, Mentors, and related

Last month, the new generation indie e-bookstore, Emily Books, featured a deep, revealing extended profile of the writer Susan Sontag by her old friend Sigrid Nunez, Sempre Susan. Sontag was a kind of mentor to Nunez in Nunez’s early career. Like … Continue reading

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Minna Proctor on Lydia Millet’s New Novel

from Bookforum The Transformers Novelist Lydia Millet homes in on the varieties of existential experience MINNA PROCTOR Butterflies flapping, according to students of chaos theory, can start typhoons. Carbon emissions make New York a city where tornadoes touch down. Social … Continue reading

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