Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan

<p>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.</p><br><p>Read more Terry Castle in the LRB: <a href="https://lrb.me/castlepod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/castlepod</a></p><p>Let us know your thoughts: <a href="https://lrb.me/podsurvey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/podsurvey</a></p><br><p>Produced by Zoe Kilbourn; editing by Sarah Sahim</p><br><p>Subscribe to Close Readings:</p><p>In Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://lrb.me/lrbpodapplesignup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apple.co/3pJoFPq</a></p><p>In other podcast apps: <a href="https://lrb.me/lrbpodsignup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/closereadings</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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