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...Sontag stands to defend herself, but we’re spared by the arrival of Joan Didion....
...This draws on Susan Sontag’s 1964 Notes on “Camp”, the first serious examination of the topic, and I think you’d struggle to find any important ways in which Baker departs from Sontag....
...Her prose’s sharp edge and rhythmic bent were emulated by Joan Didion, who passed them down to authors across the generations, from Bret Easton Ellis to Rachel Kushner and Emma Cline....
...Her chief models were Joan Didion and James Baldwin, both of whom are central to the courses she now teaches at Northwestern, and she has written of being given “permission to think” by Susan Sontag, whose...
...Joan Acocella, a journalist, recalled a typically ghastly dinner: “Susan would say something about Artaud; then she’d say to Annie, ‘Well, you wouldn’t understand who that is’.”...
...Peter Burke’s The Polymath (Yale RRP£20, May) is subtitled “A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag”. Does anyone else find that a strange pairing of names?...
...HarperCollins, June 27, £25 In her debut Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore, Terry Newman examined the wardrobes of writers, dissecting the sartorial codes of figures such as Samuel Beckett and Joan...
...”, as the Boston Globe’s reviewer of Against Interpretation described her in 1966; the often-controversial film critic Pauline Kael; and the undisputed Queen of West Coast cool, Joan Didion....
...and Joan Didion....
...Susan Sontag was giving voice to intellectual suspicion of the medium when she said that television offered “a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor”....
..., as informal and casual as Max Beerbohm, or as cool and minimalist as Joan Didion....
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