pickInteresting. Historical. Needs to center Black Trans people more.
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pickInteresting. Historical. Needs to center Black Trans people more.
Apparently reviews on Sontag biographies are good for afternoon nap taking!!!! This has been a pupplic service announcement!🐾 #DogsOfLitsy
Woohoo! And my goal was 55. So glad to have had such a productive reading year - bring it on, 2020 ✨
HAPPY NEW YEAR, LITTENS! I hope 2019 has been good to you and that 2020 brings nothing but joy. Lots and lots of hugs to make up for all my not-posting xx
pickI saw that both the tagged littens recommend this book recently and I love their taste in books so knew I had to get to this.
I read the first essay in London before a show staring drag queens and it felt like the stars aligning. I‘ve never read any Sontag before and I wish I‘d gotten to her sooner now.
Just one of those minds that comes at things from a angle you aren‘t expecting and leads you down a path you didn‘t know existed. Liked a lot.
pickI had to read this after watching every photo of the Met Gala on the Internet. It was my first Sontag and I adored it, it was even shorter than I expected. Camp was one of those words that I used and I could identify things as camp but if you‘d asked me to define the word, I don‘t think I could have done it. Now I feel I‘ve understood something I didn‘t realise I was missing, and I‘m really fascinated by the concept.
In honor of #MetGala2019 I wanted to take the chance to post about this short essay again and encourage you to pick it up! Everyday is #Recommendsday, right?!
Today‘s plan: read this, do some stitching, listen to Bowie, sit down a lot and drink many cups of tea. Yassss!
I‘ve already read ‘The Saviour‘ by Primo Levi, one of my favourite Holocaust Survivor writers/poets. Just started ‘Notes on Camp‘...not sure if I really get it yet, but have only read a couple of pages so far.
pick• Notes on 'Camp' (1966) by Susan Sontag
This Penguin Modern (29) includes two of Sontag's iconic essays: Notes on Camp and One Culture and the New Sensibility, which breaks down the barriers between what is commonly considered "high" and "low" culture. Something that I, as a person who has been academically trained in the humanities, have really been interested in recently. As @batsy said, Sontag's mind IS an amazing thing.
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Sontag before bed is intense! I only touched upon "camp" in a lit class last year at my University but this is explored way more in depth than what I understood at the time. I'm feeling it ⚡
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I‘m waiting for my copy of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir to arrive today for #FiercelyFemaleReads as well as my new copy of Phaedo by Plato, but whilst I wait I‘m reading my first taste of Susan Sontag. More essays! I‘m loving them!
New favourite genre in the mix, maybe? #susansontag #booklover #bookaddict
