Listen "Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan"
Episode Synopsis
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.
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Produced by Zoe Kilbourn; editing by Sarah Sahim
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Terry Castle in the LRB: lrb.me/castlepod
Let us know your thoughts: lrb.me/podsurvey
Produced by Zoe Kilbourn; editing by Sarah Sahim
Subscribe to Close Readings:
In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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