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Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan

Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan

FromThe LRB Podcast


Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan

FromThe LRB Podcast

ratings:
Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Aug 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In the first of our summer readings, Terry Castle reads her 2005 piece about her “on-again, off-again, semi-friendship” with Susan Sontag. She remembers Sontag as a “great comic character”: a high-minded hobnobber, a moralist and a gossip, seductive and snobbish and a catalytic force for modern feminism.Read more Terry Castle in the LRB: lrb.me/castlepodLet us know your thoughts: lrb.me/podsurveySubscribe to Close Readings:In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Aug 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

On the LRB Podcast you'll find recent (and not so recent) pieces read by the author; our 'Close Reading’ series, in which Seamus Perry and Mark Ford consider 20th century poets through the lens of the pieces written about them in the LRB; and a range of other conversations on topics and writers covered in the paper.