![]() ![]() The Sontag the public knew years later was as avid about life and learning as her teenage self, but otherwise she had failed to fulfill her expectations. That galvanizing passage is “moving on several levels,” said Sam Anderson in New York. ![]() “I intend to do everything … everything matters! … I am alive. That year, she was “reborn,” as she put it, by her first sexual experience with a woman: “I know what I want to do with my life,” she wrote hours later. ![]() (James Joyce, she noted in a later journal, was “so stupid.”) But Sontag was a peculiar prodigy: At 16, she was already a university freshman and certain of the adult intellectual she wanted to become. (“ The Magic Mountain is the finest novel I’ve ever read,” she wrote in her diary at 15.) She also disdained her elders. Yes, the future novelist and essayist experienced dizzying infatuations. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 304 pages, $24) Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963 ![]()
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