Status Updates From Sontag: Her Life and Work

she’s like a totally austere really well put together mess

when ur intense cultural elitism and refusal to reconcile ur overwhelming lesbianism to yourself makes u meaner than a thousand lou reeds

i am a HUGE susan sontag fan - but the first criticism i ever heard of her actually came from fran lebowitz who insisted that she was ‘not a sympathetic character’ and that her refusal to label herself as a lesbian is the only thing fran would defend her about. these observations are becoming increasingly valid the more i read this biography.

Station 164: Lady Susan Writes "The Volcano Lover."