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Article: SONTAG LAMENTS ON STATE OF LITERATURE.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 25, 1990
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Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
Susan Sontag took a personal stroll down literature's memory lane Tuesday afternoon and her unflinching eye saw, at every turn, provocative, controversial and sometimes sarcastic sign posts that cemented her reputation as the bad girl of contemporary American letters.
She bemoaned the loss of literary magazines, blasted today's university as "a prolongation of childhood" and dismissed much of what passes for literature nowadays as little more than "product" in a market economy.
The occasion for Sontag's eloquent, good-humored rantings - she proved, once again, to possess one of the most formidable and nimble ...