Merve Emre, Sigrid Nunez, and Doreen St. Félix on Susan Sontag Now

“The most interesting ideas are heresies.” So said Susan Sontag, a writer who refused party lines, always, and whose work changed how we think about photography and identity, gender and metaphor, performance and play. On Women-a new collection of Sontag’s seminal essays-emphasizes her ferocious intellect and ideological incongruities in equal measure.
To celebrate the book’s release by Picador, Pioneer Works hosted a conversation between three writers-Merve Emre, Sigrid Nunez, and Doreen St. Félix-to examine Sontag’s complex relationship towards womanhood and probe the writer’s refractive legacies. The three confront and explore her keen resonance in our new era of women watching women.
This project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.
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