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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
The Sept. 16 issue arrived in my mailbox today. I checked the TOC and went directly to Michael Shulman's article on fans. I enjoyed it.
Front-Ranger:
Read that too, and later wondered if the "Stans" phenomenon was the precursor to the school mass killer phenomenon. They seem to have a lot in common.
Jeff Wrangler:
Over lunch today, I read Janet Malcolm's article on the new biography of Susan Sontag. I note that Malcolm adhered to the old way of referring to her hypothetical interviewee by masculine pronouns.
Anybody ever read "Notes on Camp"?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 24, 2019, 02:10:52 pm ---
Anybody ever read "Notes on Camp"?
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Probably chunks of it, but not the whole thing. Nor "Illness as Metaphor," nor "On Photography."
I resist people whose job description is "intellectual." And maybe I'm mischaracterizing, but I don't tend to like essays that muse abstractly on "big ideas." I like essays that imply big ideas through small particulars -- more Didion than Sontag. But that may be unfair to Sontag -- I should read at least one of hers first.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 24, 2019, 05:17:07 pm ---Probably chunks of it, but not the whole thing. Nor "Illness as Metaphor," nor "On Photography."
I resist people whose job description is "intellectual." And maybe I'm mischaracterizing, but I don't tend to like essays that muse abstractly on "big ideas." I like essays that imply big ideas through small particulars -- more Didion than Sontag. But that may be unfair to Sontag -- I should read at least one of hers first.
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I wonder whether Sontag put "public intellectual" as her occupation on her tax returns? ;D
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