A review by amiboughter
Where the Stress Falls: Essays by Susan Sontag

3.0

“You said that we owe literature almost everything we are and what we have been. If books disappear, history will disappear, and human beings will also disappear. I am sure you are right. Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the “real” everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human.”

Absolutely loved reading Sontag discuss Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights, Hardwick is criminally underrated - and I am equally delighted to learn this book was dedicated to her.