Benjamin Moser: The Life of Susan Sontag

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations

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Books by Benjamin Moser

Sontag: Her Life and Work (ebook)

Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (translated by Moser) (ebook)

The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (edited by Moser) (ebook)

Books by Sheila Heti

Women in Clothes (ebook)

Motherhood (print book available when branches reopen)

“My Life is a Joke” (link opens a 2015 story by Heti in The New Yorker)

Materials by or about Susan Sontag

Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (of Susan Sontag), 1964-1980

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

On the Eve of the Met Gala, Andrew Bolton Takes Vogue on a Walking Tour of “Camp: Notes on Fashion” (link opens a Vogue magazine article from May 2019)

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA podcast
A four-part Interview with Susan Sontag (can be listened to in any order)

Episode One: This God-Damned Celebrity Culture (23 mins)

Episode Two: The Little Illness Book (19 mins)

Episode Three: The Arts Give Humans Dignity (19 mins)

Episode Four: Make Something Better (19 mins)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.