susan sontag on Vice

  • Let’s Face It

    Writers are not generally celebrities, but I did have one delirious fan. He kept me on the telephone for hours every night, during a period when I was snorting heroin to cure my insomnia. He terrorized me with idolatry. According to him, I was the only writer in the world worth reading, “or at least in the United States,” all others were hacks. No one had ever written a novel as good as 'Resentment,' or 'Horse Crazy,' no one had ever before had my insight, my honest… Full story

    2013 Jan 21 Gary Indiana Stuff
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  • Flu Season

    Fun fact: After a suicide bombing, forensic investigators immediately “look for the face mask.” The shock waves from an explosion blow the bomber’s head to smithereens but for some reason leave the face intact as a sort of peeled, rubbery pentimento of the missing person, like a… Full story

    2012 Dec 10 Gary Indiana Stuff
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  • Genius in Exile

    Reclaiming American Author James Purdy

    Writer James Purdy's work is like a dark underground river that flows undetected through the American landscape and deserves to be waded in. Full story

    2012 Jul 2 Cory MacLauchlin Stuff
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