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The most intimate and revealing biography of Susan Sontag, one of the most important intellectuals in American history. One day in 1976, a young aspiring writer, Sigrid Nunez, crosses the door of 340 Riverside Drive, the apartment in which Susan Sontag lives, writes, loves and thinks, one of the great icons of North American intellectuality, a figure legendary thanks to his controversial essays, his overflowing intelligence and his very personal style. This first meeting would change the life of Nunez, who would end up living in that same apartment with Sontag when she became the partner of…mehr

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The most intimate and revealing biography of Susan Sontag, one of the most important intellectuals in American history. One day in 1976, a young aspiring writer, Sigrid Nunez, crosses the door of 340 Riverside Drive, the apartment in which Susan Sontag lives, writes, loves and thinks, one of the great icons of North American intellectuality, a figure legendary thanks to his controversial essays, his overflowing intelligence and his very personal style. This first meeting would change the life of Nunez, who would end up living in that same apartment with Sontag when she became the partner of her only son. The three would form, for some time, a family as unique as it was controversial.
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Socorro Venegas es escritora y editora mexicana. Entre sus libros están las novelas La noche será negra y blanca (2009, Premio Nacional de Novela Ópera Prima "Carlos Fuentes" y mención especial en el Premio de Literatura "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" que otorga la FIL Guadalajara) y Vestido de novia (2014); los libros de cuentos Todas las islas (2002, Premio Nacional de Cuento "Benemérito de América"), La muerte más blanca (2000) y La risa de las azucenas (1997). Sus cuentos se han traducido al inglés y al francés, y han sido recogidos en varias antologías. Fue escritora residente en el Writters Room de Nueva York, becaria del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes y del Centro Mexicano de Escritores. Escribe la columna "Modo Avión" en la revista electrónica de literatura Literal Magazine. Ha dirigido proyectos editoriales en el Fondo de Cultura Económica y la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.