Susan Sontag has died

[WilliamPitt]

Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America's leading
intellectuals, died on December 28, 2004 at age 71 at New York's Sloan
Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times
reported on its Web site. Known for wide-ranging interests that included
everything from ballet to photography to popularizing of the works of such
authors such as Walter Benjamin and Elias Cannetti, Sontag was the author
of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist. Sontag is shown after
winning the National Book Award in fiction for 'In America' November 15,
2000.

[anamandujano]

1. shit

edit to add link to notes on camp

http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge/sontag.html

[dogindia]

2. yes.

about helping mourn with Asia
and now SS


The soul jumps out
and is safe

but we here just don't know.

It is a time of mourning.

WE ARE ONE WORLD

[scottxyz]

3. This really gets to me

I really liked a lot of her books - I remember reading them and being so impressed with how clearly she could think and write.

[Miami Liberal]

4. May she R.I.P

She will be missed, there aren't many like her around anymore.

[zapped 1]

5. one of my mentors...

may she rest in peace.

[Stephanie]

6. It's tragic

I'll never forget reading that story in The New Yorker, "The Way We Live Now." That's exactly the life we were all living then and no one was talking about it. (in the 80's, so many deaths)

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. :^(

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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/

[madison2000]

8. I loved her. True University of Chicago intellectual.

You don't find many like her any more.

[Kellis]

9. She was a great woman.

She made a difference in the world.May the tragedy of the Bush administration breed a new generation of people just like her.

[vireo]

10. She was one of the few to dare to speak the truth following 9/11

That is what I most fondly remember her for.
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/16/susans/

[SmokingJacket]

11. She leaves a gaping void.

There are so few truly hard core liberal intellectuals -- and hardly any that are women.

This is really too bad.

She did good work.

[Dancing_Dave]

12. Sad to hear it.

I saw her speak a few years back and she was just amazing.:nopity:

[candice]

13. I will miss you greatly

...was wondering aloud a few days ago what you were thinking about the outcome of this unfortunate election, and even bought the most recent New York Review of Books looking for someone like you to confront the situation in Iraq. I was fortunate to have "met" you a few times--in Berkeley at the Pacific Film Archives when you brought us your movie "The Promised Lands" and at various readings in San Francisco (Jewish Community Center, Herbst Theater, and Berkeley (Zellerbach interview with Orville Shell), several evenings at Stanford when you were a visiting scholar, a Kepler's reading in Menlo Park after you wrote "In America."

I once had you sign a first edition of "Against Interpretation" (the paperback) that I have carried with me since I was a teenager. I'll never forgot your talk at the Performance Gallery in San Francisco in the early 80s. You read books about dance on the plane ride from New York and delivered the most wonderful impromptu lecture about dance and its meaning.

Thank you for putting your brilliance to good work and making the world a better place.

[Lefty48197]

14. Photo

RIP

[GetTheRightVote]

15. It is sad to see such strong people such as Susan leave us to it

:kick:

[helderheid]

16. saw this on Dutch news tonight

She will be missed.