Susan Sontag, 1933-2004

I have long had a shameful open secret: I don't read books written by women. I'm a complete sexist in this regard. It is a terrible truth and I'm not proud of it. I do make repeated attempts from time to time to cure myself of this crippling intellectual bias. Occasionally, I succeed. I owe my successes to Susan Sontag. Her brilliant introduction to Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (which I read years ago and which still stands proudly on my bookshelf) changed the way I view theatre, art, literature, and women. The intellectual world has dimmed today. Since I blew my daily allowance of silence on the victims of the tsunami, a moment of thanks to Susan Sontag.

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