Excerpt from Philadelphia Weekly's Picks of the Week
Philadelphia Weekly
Week of 4/17 to 4/23
Susan Sontag
If you think you're a culture nerd, you haven't read Susan Sontag. In her novels, short fiction and (most notably) her essays, the writer has always proven she'd hate, as she famously said, to have to choose between Dostoevsky and the Doors. But it's another fusion--her fierce intellectualism combined with a keen emotional acuity--that makes her one of the most interesting thinkers of our time. She'll talk with a small group this Tuesday, so come prepared with questions; you'll have a good shot at interaction.