More Is More: Inside the life and work of Susan Sontag
Over a half-century has passed since the publication of Susan Sontag's 1964 essay"Notes on 'Camp,'" but attendees of this year's Met Gala, which was inspired by that essay, seemed more confused than ever about what camp means. Camp used to be an insider taste among gay men, and the very exclusionary Sontag made herself famous by attempting to describe it.
While Sontag was alive, Mildred was barely present in her mythology, but with the publication of Sontag's journals and now this biography, it is evident that Mildred was the crucial figure in her life. Sontag was so obsessed with her mother that she projected Mildred's withholding image onto many of her female lovers."She was clearly in love with her mother," said Harriet Sohmers, an early Sontag girlfriend.
After"Notes on 'Camp'" set her up and her 1966 book Against Interpretation solidified her reputation, Sontag amused herself with boldface names, like Mike Nichols and Jackie Kennedy and Warren Beatty, with whom she had a month-long affair, which seems to have been practically compulsory for famous women of her generation.
Sontag wrote some forbidding novels and short stories, and she started showing up as a fictional character in the novels of other writers. In Edmund White's Caracole , she is high-minded Mathilda, about whom he writes,"Mathilda appeared to waste a lot of time pondering the moral aspects of other people's actions.
When cornered about her sexuality in 1999 for the Guardian, Sontag told her interviewer,"I don't think same-sex relationships are valid." It seems that her own thinking on homosexuality had not moved beyond the prejudices of the late 1940s and 1950s, but Sontag did speak to Out Magazine editor Brendan Lemon in 2000 about possibly doing a profile where she would discuss her sexuality, and she was more expansive with him.
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