Benjamin Moser in conversation with Honor Moore – Sontag: Her Life & Work at Coolidge Corner Theatre

Every ticket includes 1 copy of Sontag: Her Life & Work. Benjamin Moser will speak at the Coolidge Corner Theatre at 6:00pm on September 25th (ticket required).

Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism. Moser’s masterful new biography explores the insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. It shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own.

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