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She's back!  The Surfing Librarian is back after a long, uncalled-for hiatus to discuss her dead lover, Susan Sontag.  In this episode, a discussion of Sontag's most recent book, At the Same Time.  Why is literature important?  How does it extend our sympathies?  More importantly, why does Larry McMurtry hate librarians?This week's book recommendation: Dave Egger's newest book, What is the What, a novelized account of the life of Valentino Achak Deng from his home i ...

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Out of the vault: the Surfing Librarian reveals the juiciest bits from the long correspondence between Susan and Larry McMurtry.  From hating librarians to PEN America, from apartment keys to photos of Sontag's childhood home, this podcast has it all.  Plus, the secret to perfect scrambled eggs.Stay tuned for more.Yours truly,The Surfing Librarian

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The surfing librarian admits her unrelenting and growing love for a dead woman, Susan Sontag.  Here begins the exploration, with exerpts from Sontag's first novel, the Benefactor.  Bonus: the meaning of "onanism" and biblical masturbation!  (Caution: may not be suitable for all audiences).  Beginning revelations of Sontag's personal life, from yet to be published personal journals, plus a bonus recipe for crepes, in honor of the country where Sontag is buried.

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An indulgent look into Sontag's personal life via Annie Leibovitz's new photo memoir, A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005.  If Sontag's art was about transcending the self, what can we see about her personal life that is not expressed in her writing?  An intimate look at love, life, travel, birth, and death, circled around the idea of photos as a memento mori, or reminders of death.  "All photograph's are memeto mori," Sontag wrote in her book On Photography in 1973.&n ...

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This week a final look at Sontag's first novel, The Benefactor.  How does the benefactor relate to Voltaire's Candide and what can we learn from both?  How do we balance thinking and action in our daily lives?  Also a relief from the masturbatory descent into the mind of Hippolyte by way of the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Rumi.And on a final joyous note: rethinking the chocolate chip cookie.

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Podcast reborn!  After a brief hiatus, Surfing Librarian returns to her dead lover and begins anew.  Thanks to a reminder from Paigerella, (who is reading James Joyce's Ulysses, out loud!), April is Poetry Month.  Her introduction to the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay through the gorgeous poem Renascence spurs a Surfing Librian reading of Spring. Next up, we begin a new novel from Sontag, perhaps her most acclaimed: The Volcano Lover, a Romance.  Of course, she got the Nat ...

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