Susan Sontag, dead at 71

I was flipping through the channels the other day and landed on C-SPAN. They were showing a repeat of an "in-depth" interview with Susan Sontag from early 2003. I thought that was weird, but stopped and watched it for a while. I've just finished Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others which is an excellent and timely book, prescient in so many respects as we are now saturated with painful photography. Turns out they were running that show in relation to her death. She discussed her two previous bouts with cancer during the interview.

I've been on vacation, so this post is late to the table. Best list of links to Sontag obits is on Arts & Letters Daily.