Susan Sontag
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer's artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the Reagan era.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of sixteen essays, written in the last years of the author's life, offers reflections on her commitment to the power of literature, the resistence to injustice as an ethical duty, and the problems of post-9/11 Ameria.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction from the groundbreaking essayist, novelist, and political activist includes allegories and parables as she wrestles with topics that made up her private sorrows and fears.
"Susan Sontag was one of our foremost public intellectuals, a world-renowned essayist, playwright, novelist, activist, and director. Her name is surpassed only by her immense and invaluable body of work. Debriefing collects all of Sontag's shorter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"In his posthumous memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that both cover the basics of his existence and open out into philosophical explorations that sometimes follow meandering paths of thought to unexpected places, at times exuberant and hilarious, at other times cynical and utterly at odds with the world around him. In the tradition of...
16) Zelig
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."-- Provided by publisher.