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Aug 16, 2023 50 min

Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan

from The LRB Podcast Hosted by The London Review of Books

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. Read more 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

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