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Writers Off the Page: Susan Sontag - Part Four: "Make Something Better"
2019-10-24
Works by Susan Sontag
From America
The Volcano Lover
Tuesday, and After: New Yorker Writers Respond to 9/11 (New Yorker article from Sep 2001)
Regarding the Pain of Others
Debriefing: Collected Stories
Works about Susan Sontag
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
Robert Fulford: A Sojourn With Susan Sontag (National Post article from 2012)
Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Susan Sontag: A Biography by Daniel Schreiber
Other Related Books or Materials
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About the Host
Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.
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From the Archives
Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.
Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.
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