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Song of Sontag
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Jewish Exponent
04-27-2000
Song of Sontag
I've just caught up with one of the more intriguing pieces to appear in the
past two months -- Joan Acocella's profile of writer Susan Sontag in the
March 6 issue of The New Yorker. Acocella is one of the best of the new
crop of reporter-critics at the magazine, and her admiring portrait of
Sontag, who has been a fixture in the upper tiers of American literary life
for the last 40 years, is, at least...
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