Notes on Regarding Susan Sontag

Doc opens up about Sontag's loves and career path

"...critic, essayist, political activist, feminist icon, and public intellectual Susan Sontag had lived much of her life in front..."

Dec. 8, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Notes on Kitsch

... or W.W.S.S.T. (What Would Susan Sontag Think) about Austin's love of camp?

"...Back in 1964, culture critic Susan Sontag wrote the landmark piece "Notes on 'Camp,'" exploring..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him

"...and the image. It was that distancing that caused Susan Sontag (among others) to dub him a misogynist, but..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947-1963

What these early diaries give is a sense of the author and cultural analyst in the process of becoming the international touchstone known as Susan Sontag

"...Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947-1963by Susan Sontag, edited by David Rieff Farrar, Straus & Giroux,..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Books Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The American Voice

Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections," and other new releases

"...Where the Stress Fallsby Susan Sontag..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Coffeetable Books

Dream On

"...Womenby Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Books Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Good Eye: Summer Camp

Notes on QueerBomb's profusion of glitter and camp

"...In her famous 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag summed up the camp sensibility as: "Style is..."

June 20, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Short Cuts

Festival news from around the globe, as pertaining to Austin's little chunk of it.

"...the report, Levitch "invited 130 guests including Julie Taymor, Susan Sontag" and others aboard a double-decker bus for an..."

May 16, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Postscripts

What to look for in new fall titles

"...In September, FSG is publishing Where the Stress Falls, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays in 35 years… W.G...."

July 20, 2001 Books Column by Clay Smith

2 Kool 2 Be 4gotten

"...reproduced from prints made by Lee Friedlander, introduction by Susan Sontag, text by John Szarkowski (Random House, $40 hard)..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Notes on Mad Dogs

If you were young, talented, and a little crazy in the old Austin, you may have answered to the bizarre title of "Mad Dog."

"...literary history, can lay claim to the same feelings Susan Sontag experienced when she wrote "Notes on 'Camp'" in..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Books Feature by Clay Smith

The Film Society That Brought Indie and Arthouse to Austin Returns

AFS hosts a series of the movies that inspired Cinema 40

"...Notes, a special AFS anthology of the zine reprints Susan Sontag's essay on Godard and an interview with Andy..."

Nov. 22, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

New in Print

Get radicalized: About to Die examines news imagery at the moment of death, while The Verso Book of Dissent spans Zola and Tupac

"...and admitted debt to the academy's favorite photography buff Susan Sontag, Zelizer treats these images as both rare and..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Playing Through

Shannon McCormick and Graham Reynolds' Unbeaten revels in the camp aspects of football in a loving way

"...In her famous "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag didn't cite pro football as an example. She..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Column by Thomas Hackett

Page Two

A tainted prayer for the new year

"...Dylan, D.W. Griffith, Sam Peckinpah, Lizzie Borden, Walt Whitman, Susan Sontag, Woody Guthrie, Will Eisner, Joni Mitchell, Jonathan Richman,..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Russian Ark

This tour de force of modern cinema is a technical feat filmed in one, uninterrupted, Steadicam take that leads us through a vivified tour of Russian history that wends through the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

"...of movie that inspires no less a critical eminence Susan Sontag to write a preface to the film’s press..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Postscripts

Comedy that stands the test of time, and royal dictates that don't.

"...in Winter"), Katherine Anne Porter ("The Future Is Now"), Susan Sontag ("Notes on Camp"), John McPhee ("The Search for..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Column by Clay Smith

Postscripts

The hall of mirrors that is J.H. Hatfield's Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President and upcoming appearances in Austin by Nathan Englander (For the Relief of Unbearable Urges).

"...Avedon: The Sixties, Women by Annie Leibovitz (text by Susan Sontag), Keepers of the Kingdom: The Ancient Offices of..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 3-9

"...CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Susan Sontag unleashed a bizarre boast, writing, "One of the..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 15-21

"...CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Susan Sontag wrote about people who weren't receptive to her..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Alphabet Soup: aGLIFF, IFP, and Other Announcements

Announcements from aGLIFF, Austin represents at the IFP, and more

"...include Out in the Night, The Rugby, and Regarding Susan Sontag. A festival fundraiser – Faster, Pussycat! Dance! Dance!..."

July 25, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indoor Queers Club

Stay home and cool off with Qmmunity’s movie, book, and TV recs

"...with mentions of pop culture like Lady Gaga or Susan Sontag’s Notes on Camp. Check out “The First Trans..."

July 13, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Qmmunity: Pride Month Tolls for Thee

Ask not whom Pride Month is for – it is for thee!

"...Lynne Metcalf, and the previously quoted Gothess Jasmine; the Susan Sontag Memorial waterslide; and, according to Schindler, much meaningful..."

June 24, 2022 Column by James Scott

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 9-16

"...ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Susan Sontag defined "mad people" as those who "stand alone..."

April 9, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 2-8

"...and healthy practice of being extremely virtuous. Imitate author Susan Sontag: "My idolatry: I've lusted after goodness. Wanting it..."

April 2, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Writers Conference in San Antonio Carries On Despite Coronavirus

The Association of Writing Programs conference proceeded even under a public health emergency and with reduced attendance

"...canonical writers such as John Milton, Virginia Woolf, and Susan Sontag, as well to contemporary writers such as Sarah..."

March 13, 2020 Arts Feature by Mark Gozonsky

MASS Gallery's "Staycation: thresholds"

The gallery's first exhibit in its new home invites viewers into the private self and into the stretching of one's limits

"...is a quotation on the nature of thresholds from Susan Sontag's On Photography: "Much of modern art is devoted..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

416 Bar & Grille

Perhaps best without the "grille" part

"...ramekins of sour cream, queso, pico, and salsa. Were Susan Sontag a food critic, she would eat it up...."

April 10, 2015 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

aGLIFF/Polari

"...The Way He Looks, 5:05pm; Limited Partnership, 5:15pm; Regarding Susan Sontag, 7:30pm; Lilting, 7:15pm; Peter de Rome: Godfather of..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

Gay Town in the A-Town

"...A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo, 2:35pm; Regarding Susan Sontag, 7:30pm; Tom at the Farm, 10pm; Peter de..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

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