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  <title><![CDATA[I, etcetera: Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>In eight stories, this singular collection of short fiction written over the course of ten years explores the terrain of modern urban life. In reflective, telegraphic prose, Susan Sontag confronts the reader with exposed workings of an impassioned intellect in narratives seamed with many of the themes of her essays-the nature of knowing, our relationship with the past, and the future in an alienated present.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[ps- I like her essays on Benjamin, Artaud, etc.<br/><br/>I, etc.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mi primer acercamiento feministoide (chale)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a short story called Debriefing by Susan Sontag and for a moment I was in NY city, lonely and depressed, on edge. I really enjoyed this short piece. Her writing styIe, rambling, using short clips and held together with solid descriptions (especially in the story called Unguided Tour) painted ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37333706">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have never read Sontag's fiction before this and it struck me as more revelatory than her criticism. The narrators here have the clipped, stream-of-strange-consciousness sensibilities you find in, say, a Lorrie Moore story, but are more baffling and metaphysical. The first story in particular rais...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33328480">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories are mostly good, but they really pick up when Sontag abandons overt narrative, as in the ones that bookend the collection - &quot;Project for a Trip to China&quot; and &quot;Unguided Tour.&quot; Yeah they're a little pretentious but, I mean, it's Susan Sontag.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yesterday I made dinner for my sister and myself.  The kale was pretty bland but the tofurkey and mashed potatoes were good.<br/><br/>Some stories in this book I thought were really amazing.]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Feminists, people who like prose]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[No wonder Susan Sontag is as well-regarded as she is.  Her stories were so compelling and original!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories written by someone too intelligent to write short stories. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the story _Notes from a trip to China_, in particular. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Better wrong with them than right with the others.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such clinical prose, nonetheless powerful.]]></body>
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