A Book a Day: Sontag

[caitri]

 Every day (ish) I'm sharing an image of a book I like. I finished reading this heavy biography after Christmas; it had a bit of a controversy around it since Moser claims that Sontag likely ghostwrote her ex-husband's most famous book, along with various other credits to his name. Mostly the book tries to combine biography and intellectual history, and largely succeeds, though there's an awful lot of gossipyness to it as well (which, I enjoy that sort of thing, but I know a lot of folks don't). What I did admire was how Moser went into heavy biographical territory for a woman writer in a way a lot of biographies of women simply don't: he gives exhaustive details on everything, not just love affairs and whatnot. Which, you know, should be normal by now, but of course isn't.