Susan Sontag interview (2000)

Susan Sontag talks about her newest book, "In America: A Novel."
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[@dpq06]

Watching a bunch of her talks/interviews during the last 4 years of her life and hearing her mention so often that she's "just getting started" or "I haven't made my best work yet" is heartbreaking and heartening all at once

[@GaryNReese]

Why do you say that? what writer/critic says, I've already written my best work, just waiting for the Nobel Prize? "In America" and "The Volcano Lover" were her best novels, and she knew that before she died.

[@Scrimparmy]

i celebrate her decay

[@fredericlapalus6339]

Yes, and she was honest with herself and us. She seemed to be an eternal curious person. She told us she was interested in many, many things, much over literature and novels, like neurology, etc

[@fredericlapalus6339]

Such mothers are a goft not only for their daughters, but, and its very very important being awake about that : even for the boys, the little boys !!! With her for a little boy it wasnt a fault to cry, it was a stupid thing liking dance or piano or drawing, or playing with dolls, why not

[@susand484]

This is just so much more personal than I expected of her. It's rather special that way. I met a person who was looking after her when she was dying. She was furious at having to leave! Of course. I wish she was still around and telling us what she thinks about the current art world and anything else she would be thinking about. You don't have to agree with her but she will get you thinking, really thinking, if you want to understand what she is talking about. Referring to the essays. I find it's worth the effort.

[@novaxFLY]

Thanks for this film. I have read her books here in Poland and love her kind of thinking. Thanks again.

[@nightflowering5810]

Her love of reading/writing is so refreshing and inspiring

[@ricomichel]

Charlie Rose is by far the best interviewer of creative people of all time. He gets to the very core of the creative process, and even gets his interviewees to figure out stuff about themselves they never before could.

[@GaryNReese]

Rose never listens, interrupts frequently, was the male equivalent of Barbara Walters. He was only there because, in our cultural wasteland on TV, nobody else was.

[@justininfrance]

HahahahaHahahahahaaaaaaahaaaaaahhhhhahahahahahahah'HaHaHaHaHahahahahhahahahhhhaaahahahah...........aghgh!

[@dianablackman4528]

Wrong. He is not who he appears to be i.e. the intellectual interviewer. He was charged with inappropriate behaviour with women. A phony.

[@willmercury]

​@@dianablackman4528 Ah... Everyone is simply the sum of the worst allegations wielded against them in the public square. Either a paragon, or utterly worthless. What happened to make you so vindictive? Did he throw you over love?

[@user-wx7yc4dj5f]

Such an incredible interview! suzan is an icon

[@folksurvival]

She's scum.

[@belleofkilronan8565]

Sontag is always interesting, tuned in, and just admirable overall. Great channel!

[@GaryNReese]

Overall great comments here. I have read, been dazed and confused by her essays, as a teen-ager and college student. Stayed with her, and was always the richer for her insights even though I often didn't agree. Just bought her books -- essays -- again and her last two novels.

[@AlistairAVogan]

There is a Japanese expression that goes something like ‘a man away from home has no neighbors’. This is usually used to explain the bad behavior of people when they leave their neighborhood and travel to distant places. The truth is that it is not institutions alone that support and confine us. Our sense of self is supported and clarified by those around us. We use a form of ‘extended mind’ to do this and in our interactions with others there’s a call and response that supports the idea we have of ourselves. It is an idea of ourselves that we grow to accept, even if we push unsuccessfully against it. This is a universal phenomenon. There isn’t an American exceptionalism entirely as Susan Sontag discusses. Anyone who leaves their neighborhood and travels a great distance is free from the eyes of those who know them. Away from our home, we do not encounter a ‘theory of mind’ of others that holds us within it that weighs us down like gravity. So when we travel from home, whether from middle America to New York or abroad, we experience a sensation of liberation with a promise of transformation. Whether you’re going from Poland to the UK, Syria to Turkey from North America to an Asian country and so on, you are continually reminded that you may not be who you thought you were, and that the sky may be the limit.

[@Hladovina]

I haven't heard somebody praise themselves so much in recent years.

[@diegow8221]

Brilliant dialog. I have entered here just to listening English, but the speech was very smart. A lot of things to learn ( besides English)

[@GaryNReese]

Your comments are very refreshing, BRAVO!

[@mr_mr]

I love Charlie Rose. Having Susan on this show is wonderful to see.

[@08CARIB]

Her point at 17:00 is so true!

[@williampaulbeaugruendler7901]

The great novels are educations of feelings! They enlarge your sympathies! Fiction gives you a model for caring about things you might not otherwise care about.

[@sebastianatkinstall993]

Love sontag, man

[@deejarrett4267]

"That's why I'm eazzzeeeeehhh.....Easy like a Sontag Morgaaaaaan oh yeahhhhhhhh.......

[@tracylf5409]

So sad Susan & her intellect is gone (as w/Christopher Hitchens). So sad for Annie Leibovitz, who lost both a partner & an intellectual equal. :(

[@addiebrook2517]

She had a very true statement about a certain demographic and ♋️ .

[@gdubsterz1238]

Whoever she was 22 years ago she is insane now.

[@willrobinson5097]

She’s been dead for eighteen years..

[@robertpoen5383]

"Actors are cattle." --Alfred Hitchcock

[@didierboudet88]

Femme brillante, hélas insuffisamment connue en France, ce pays qu'elle a tant aimé.

[@vincentp.3912]

Didier Boudet de la merde, comme tout ce qui vient de la gauche en général.

[@AlmaPasalic-rg8yt]

Clever, beautiful, sexy, wonderful, thank you SS

[@davidchipps]

THANKS TO SUSAN SONTAG. I'M CONVINCED THAT MY MOTHER DID NOT HAVE MILK. SHE HAD TWO ABSCESSES ON HER CHEST I WAS HELPING DRAIN AS A CHILD. OY VEY!! THE WOMAN IS A WALKING NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.

[@billthestinker]

And then old Charlie took it Out

[@stonecypher6344]

Susan Sontag has made quite the career out of espousing antiWhiteism.

[@zw6201]

Shut up, racists.

[@3Kiwiana]

She’s human trash, and that’s that.

[@icemanire5467]

That's the small hat for you.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Her writings on photography are a fun read but her novels, ugh.. can't say I enjoyed them very much. She's a good essayist, mediocre writer.

[@jodydeats1195]

Can't wait to see Kristen Stewart's new project about this lady!

[@eddiegonzalez2704]

To think that this guy was a rapist....sittting there talking to Susan Sontag....!

[@willmercury]

Unwanted advances are rape? That's first-class logic.

[@JohnDoe-gq8tt]

Susan kcuf ouy

[@felixnauta]

Susan Sontag was abortist, and the abortist arguments are absurd.

[@torque122]

......her...? Really?! Ffs

[@YO3A007]

she was never an intellectual and my, my how she hated this country.

[@muthusala6143]

Go to he'll sontag

[@eliaskafka7759]

he'll

[@hairyasstruman2257]

I'm sure she's already there, sucking Satan's pole