sarahfonseca's reviews
343 reviews

The 'eh' rating's not on Susan, but Susan's editorial son, David Rieff, whose annotations were a bit too few and far between in some places (for example, it would've been nice to know that writer Sigrid Nunez and David were partnered at the time of these journals) and excessive in others. I'd read the first volume (Reborn) prior to this one and really enjoyed its flow, the balance of personal and ideological, and length. I wanted more. With this volume, I was overwhelmed; too much information, far too concentrated. It took me a few months to get through this volume, if only because Sontag references ideas and things which I know nothing about, thus--as an autodidact--I had to spend time armchair-researching while reading. The irony of coming out of reading this with a laundry list of new vocabulary and an over post-it'd copy of As Consciousness is Harnessed would not have been lost on Susan.