BBC World Service | Benjamin Moser

Susan Sontag gave us ‘the key to modern culture’

Through the ’60s and ’70s up to her death, the American writer Susan Sontag was the embodiment of the metropolitan public intellectual. Fifteen years after her death, Benjamin Moser set out to write a new biography of the cultural icon, called “Sontag: Her Life and Work”. Julian Worricker’s interview with him starts with Sontag speaking about herself.

Listen to the interview