bPublished in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant careerb pbA humanizing interview with the late cultural icon, who was often perceived as a fiercely aggressive and polarizing intellect.--iKirkus Reviewsib br Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of iRolling Stonei magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. Published more than three decades later, this book provides the entire transcript of Sontag's remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott's preface and recollections. Sontag's musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade aft