In the Dec. 22 & 29, 2008 NEW YORKER, Darryl Pinckney writes about Susan Sontag's early journals. I loved reading about her lists of books she was reading in the early 1960s and her critiques of the writers. Henry James, Proust. Tillich, Gibbon, G. Le Bras, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison & Grace Paley.
Pickney concludes the article with a quote from a 1961 journal entry:
"Writing is a beautiful act. It is making something that will give pleasure to others later."
What are you reading now?
What are you writing now?
BH
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