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...Susan Sontag, rumoured to pen “her essays in a marathon of typing, smoking, and speed”, and the novelist Mary McCarthy put in regular appearances....
...Mary J BligeNew York, NY, 2001 She was clearly not excited to do the shoot. I think it was on a day she’d had to do one press event after the other....
...Mary McCarthy said Hardwick could make figures “dead or imaginary” seem to be “living a few blocks down the street”....
...These are arranged chronologically from, variously, Christine de Pizan’s 14th-century utopia The Book of the City of Ladies though Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth (the former slave whose 1851 “Ain’t...
...In Susan Sontag’s 1969 “Letter from Sweden”, she notes that the lack of light is matched by the mood of people she meets: “inner weather here is dark”....
...She also considers the Californians, drawn like so many others to the cultural epicentre of New York: the young Susan Sontag, “a kind of undergraduate Mary McCarthy clawing her way through contemporary culture...
...Susan Sontag was buried in a Fortuny, as was the heroine of Mary McCarthy’s novel The Group — making some sort of statement about life, death and enduring beauty....
...Mary sounded a nightmare to live with....
...This Mary is all too believable....
...Seasoned guides took us round the place where the Virgin Mary was said to have lived and where Paul, some claim, wrote his letter to the Ephesians....
...Then, a sighting of Mary McCarthy, who has a grin, grey hair and a red and blue print suit, but is silent....
...He told the story of Susan Sontag taking Waiting for Godot to Sarajevo and said “they needed that to keep alive....
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