The Archives: Susan Sontag
“It is difficult, as you know, to create interest in new writers.” -FSG letter introducing Susan Sontag’s first book, 1963
FSG has published Susan Sontag since her debut novel The Benefactor. Here are a few selections from an archive of almost fifty years of material. Note the pitch-perfect location for the Volcano Lover publication party, and the lines from the teenage Sontag’s diary on the back of At the Same Time.
Audio: Sontag at the Prague Writer’s Festival in 2000 with Robert Stone and William Styron
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© Prague Writers’ Festival, 2000
- Early Distribution List for “The Benefactor,” 1963
- “On Photography,” 1977
- “I, etcetera,” 1977
- “Illness as Metaphor,” 1978
- “Under the Sign of Saturn,” 1980
- Media List, 1989
- “AIDS and Its Metaphors,” 1989
- Touring Schedule, 1989
- “The Way We Live Now,” 1991
- “Volcano Lover” Launch Party Invite, 1992
- “The Volcano Lover,” 1992
- “In America,” 1999
- “Regarding the Pain of Others,” 2003
- “At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches,” 2007
- “At the Same Time” Back Cover




















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