Recent Reads by Duras and Brian Dillon, A Home in Sontag's Journals & Reading Projects
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I’ve been reading Susan Sontag’s journals, unintentionally starting with the second volume, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: 1964-1980, very slowly for a couple weeks now. Going into it I expected it to be something I would read fairly fast, with journals and diaries being looser and more meandering. While this is true for Sontag’s journals, I find that when I pick it up I usually only read 20 or so pages, and then I won’t read it at all for days. Part of this is that my attention has been on other reading projects. This year I have had a massive book going at all times—first it was
Recent Reads by Duras and Brian Dillon, A Home in Sontag's Journals & Reading Projects
Recent Reads by Duras and Brian Dillon, A…
Recent Reads by Duras and Brian Dillon, A Home in Sontag's Journals & Reading Projects
I’ve been reading Susan Sontag’s journals, unintentionally starting with the second volume, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: 1964-1980, very slowly for a couple weeks now. Going into it I expected it to be something I would read fairly fast, with journals and diaries being looser and more meandering. While this is true for Sontag’s journals, I find that when I pick it up I usually only read 20 or so pages, and then I won’t read it at all for days. Part of this is that my attention has been on other reading projects. This year I have had a massive book going at all times—first it was