Benjamin Chambers writes:
Over at The Millions, Anne K. Yoder has a humorous review of the recently-published opening volume of Susan Sontag’s journals.
For those interested in Sontag’s early development, I highly recommend her memoir, “Pilgrimage” (published in the December 21, 1987 issue of The New Yorker and curiously classified in the magazine’s index as “fiction”). In it, she describes how she and a friend arranged to meet Thomas Mann at his home while she was still in high school.
She burned brightly, early.