The Volcano Lover – From Sondheim to Sontag – A Day After
Close to midnight I wrote to Alan Sondheim,
(do you think I should add that she would like to be known
as a novelist. She seemed to want that recognition, gathering from
TV interviews – my impression).
She described how in telling the story she would often find herself
in tears. She was so moved.
“Well I think of her as novelist, really liked The Volcano Lover…”
(via email) Alan Sondheim replied.
I asked if he wants to add something to my post on Sontag,
he said ” I want to read her again on illness; I’ll use that in a piece.
She was incredibly brave in the writing she did about 9/11.
And there are good minds left, there are always dor vdor, generations after generations…
(*dor vdor is Hebrew.)