Susan Sontag has died

[WilliamPitt]

Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America's leading
intellectuals, died on December 28, 2004 at age 71 at New York's Sloan
Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times
reported on its Web site. Known for wide-ranging interests that included
everything from ballet to photography to popularizing of the works of such
authors such as Walter Benjamin and Elias Cannetti, Sontag was the author
of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist. Sontag is shown after
winning the National Book Award in fiction for 'In America' November 15,
2000. (Bernie Nunez/Reuters)

[redqueen]

1. Holy God

... I just don't know what else to say ...

[Phillycat]

2. That's sad.

I remember reading my first book of hers as a teenager and wishing I could sit in a room with her and pick her brain. I wish they still had salons, like in Dorothy Parker's day...

[myrna minx]

3. I love Susan Sontag.

The human rights movement has lost an amazing champion. :-(

On edit-She was the co-host for studio 360 some time back. What an amazing woman.

http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/show021503.html

[gardenista]

4. Sad. One of her quotes changed my life.

"That which prevents you from doing your work has become your work."

I switched careers because of those words. Thanks, Ms. Sontag. You have my undying respect and gratitude.

[Lorien]

5. Too many of the "greats" are leaving us

and what are we left with?

Sad.

[terrya]

6. She defined camp.

A gifted, thought provoking writer.

That's sad news.

T

[incapsulated]

7. Oh, Jeez...

She was one of my heroines growing up. :(

Goodbye Susan.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. That is definately a BIG loss

Dag!

[FizzFuzz]

9. oh dear

:(

[ulysses]

10. shit.

Fucking cancer.

Illness as Metaphor is a great book. Damned disease.

[xchrom]

11. farewell, ms. sontag. though it is too soon.

what an impact on my life and the life of a generation you made -- truly a life fulfilled.
farewell.