“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
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– The Benefactor, 1963
“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question.”
“Against Interpretation,” 1964
“Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.”
– Vassar Commencement Speech 2003
“Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading.”
– The Volcano Lover, 1992
“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader’s own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement — not incitement.”
Advocate Names 10 Best LGBT Documentaries of 2014
Regarding Susan Sontag is honored to be #2 on The Advocate’s list of the 10 best LGBT documentaries of 2014. http://www.advocate.com/year-review/2014/12/24/10-best-lgbt-documentaries-2014?page=0%2C1
Regarding Susan Sontag Soundrack Released on iTunes
The outstanding Regarding Susan Sontag soundtrack by Laura Karpman and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum is now available on Itunes. The CD release is scheduled for early 2015. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/regarding-susan-sontag-original/id951204637
San Francisco Chronicle – Best Documentaries of 2014
Regarding Susan Sontag has been named one of the Best Documentaries of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle!
– Journal entry, 2/13/50, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong + fruitful.”
VIDEO – Director Nancy Kates and Stephen Koch Interviewed for Huffington Post
Thanks to The Huffington Post for this great video interview with director Nancy Kates and Stephen Koch. http://on.aol.com/video/regarding-susan-sontag-518547296