According to Moser, Sontag Wrote It

"Out in September, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser lays out textual and anecdotal evidence that [Susan] Sontag was not only the unofficial co-author of the 1959 analysis of Freud, which has long been known. Then in her 20s, the celebrated writer and filmmaker collaborated on the book with the sociologist [Philip] Rieff, whom she married at the age of 17, just 10 days after attending one of his lectures."

NOTE: In 2025, I read an interesting refutation of this idea. Another author suggests it may be extreme to say that Sontag wrote Rieff's 1959 Freud analysis.

Sontag and Hem on solitude and the writing life

Thanks to an Annie Rose Facebook share, I read Ernest Hemingway's thoughts on solitude and the writing life from his 1954 Nobel Prize speech. The entry begins with Susan Sontag:

“One can never be alone enough to write,” Susan Sontag observed. Solitude, in fact, seems central to many great writers’ daily routines — so much so, it appears, that part of the writer’s curse might be the ineffable struggle to submit to the spell of solitude and escape the grip of loneliness at the same time.

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