Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
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Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
At present, we seem to be suffering from a widespread failure of literary imagination. We have become worse at imagining the experiences of other people, less inclined to credit these experiences as being as valid and real as our own. Why is this? In part, I think, because of the methods by, and pace at which, we acquire our stories. After all,... See more
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