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Feminist, activist and author Susan Sontag last night discussed her latest piece of historical fiction, In America: A Novel, a work that she insisted is not only a story, but is a novel about storytelling...
...stories that attract me are the ones in which I can tell other stories," Sontag told a crowd of over 150 people in the Graduate School of Education's Longfellow Hall...
...Sontag discussed the plot, characters and writing process behind her novel, emphasizing that Zalewska re-invents herself and lauding the character's search for self-transformation and openness to change...
Surprisingly, the answer seems to be no. In America displays Sontag in a relaxed, pleasure-seeking mode, guiding her characters through a long travelogue in time, specifically the beginnings of the gilded age in the brave new world. Here are sumptuous theaters in Manhattan and hotels in San Francisco; a journey 1,900 feet down into a silver mine in Virginia City, Nev.; cameo appearances by such luminaries as Henry James and Edwin Booth...
There was a time when Sontag the critic scorned scenery-crammed, realistic Victorian novels and their confident claims of authorial omniscience. Now she has written one and demonstrated, in the process, that narrative skill can come in unfashionable packages...