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...question-and-answer setting, Leibovitz said Women started out in 1996 as a follow-up to Leibovitz's book on the Atlanta Olympics. She said the theme and inspiration came from author Susan Sontag, who wrote the essay preface to the book...
Cross Diana Krall with Susan Sontag, and you get Patricia Barber, whose throaty, come-hither vocals and coolly incisive piano are displayed to devastating effect on her first all-standards album. Nightclub is clearly designed to prove that the cerebral Chicago songstress can be more than just a lesbian cult figure, and it succeeds spectacularly: Barber's hushed, sensuous version of Bye Bye Blackbird hasn't been bettered since Miles Davis last took the old standby out for a spin...
...Sontag said her book, which is based on a true story, is nevertheless a fictional work. She said that for this reason, she "writhes" when she hears the book referred to as a historical novel...
...freedom of fiction, she said, allows the writer to contradict herself. Sontag said she often changes her mind about something she has written almost as soon as she has written it. Fiction, Sontag said, allows for her to be flexible in her writing...
This flexibility prompted Sontag to recall a quote by one of her favorite authors, Henry James...