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Unlike the rest of the working wounded, sick writers can turn their health problems into therapeutic books. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor undoubtedly helped her and thousands of readers deal with cancer. William Styron's Darkness Visible benefited its author as well as others torpedoed by depression...
...original! How utterly daring! Professor Mansfield's insights (I am being generous) left me faintly breathless with delight. I mean, who would have dreamed of linking homosexuals to the arts? Oscar Wilde, perhaps? Susan Sontag? I am a little worried though; I mean there is so much pressure to be fabulous all the time. It's not easy being envies. (Professor Mansfield is at least spared that huge headache...
...Lawrence Welk reruns, which are now shown on 77% of PBS stations. Chief PBS programmer Jennifer Lawson says, disingenuously, that the Welk shows are legitimate as "an alternative to violence and gratuitous sex on commercial television." Local stations find it's those shows at the not-exactly-Susan-Sontag end of things that inspire subscribers to send in money. But isn't that, to use a trope PBS devotees should appreciate, destroying the village in order to save...
...Sontag studied at the University of Chicago and received master's degrees from Harvard in English literature and philosophy. She has received Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. She also won the National Book Critics Circle Award...
...Sontag has written fiction, two plays, four films and a variety of essays. Her essays include "Illness as Metaphor," published in 1978, and "AIDS and its Metaphors," published in 1989, both of which try to create a deeper view of the concept of illness...