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"Robert Boyers' memoir of his fifty years of friendship with Susan Sontag and George Steiner offers a revelatory, personal perspective on two of America's most influential thinkers. As the founding editor of the celebrated literary magazine Salmagundi, Boyers met Sontag shortly after he published an essay on her work. For many years she collaborated with him and his wife, Peg, on Salmagundi symposia, the New York State Summer Writers Institutes, and...
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[2020]
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"A glimpse into a beloved novelist's inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and...
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